Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Onto millions of French TV screens flashed the martial visage of Napoleon, resplendent in his braided uniform and two-cornered hat. Then the camera descended to bare thighs and legs furiously pumping a bicycle. Eh bien! Nappy was in a closely contested race, panting beside Marshals Ney, Murat and Massena. The Duke of Wellington was gaining fast amid cries that "The Englishman is right on our rear ends!" Worse, Nappy's teammates refused to help when his front tire went pffft. "If I win at. Waterloo, I'll give you a big share of the prize money," whined...
RICHARD STRAUSS: SYMPHONIA DOMESTICA (Columbia). Strauss once declared that he found himself as interesting as Napoleon and equally worthy to be the subject of a symphony. He generously included his wife and baby in the scenario when he wrote this tone poem about a day at home. The baby is put to bed as the clock chimes 7 and there is some love music for the happy parents that one imaginative critic has found pornographic. The musical themes are not the most memorable that Strauss ever wrote, but the orchestration is magnificent; and George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra make...
Practical Romance. Elsewhere, Leibnitz and Newton were demonstrating man's command of his environment through advances in science. Sir Christopher Wren had surpassed romantic vision with brick and stone. Napoleon was soon to end forever Europe's old order. And in Venice, where romance had always been well salted with practicality, Canaletto's lucid art bridged the opposed worlds. He stands to this day, as it was said of his city, "between the morning and the evening lands...
...power over this great city. The shock and revulsion of seeing its impaired beauty, half hidden by the wall, is tempered by the remembrance of the history it has witnessed. The chariot now astride the gate is the same one which was once borne triumphantly into Paris by Napoleon...
Boiled Red. A somewhat less sure comer-througher is Napoleon Solo, hero of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. This la bored acronym stands for United Network Command for Law Enforcement, or good guys. Solo (played by Robert Vaughn) is set to battle weekly against the malevolent members of THRUSH, which stands for bads and is an international organization "with no allegiance to any country or ideal." Last week THRUSH was trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening...