Word: napoleonism
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...Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw up at least as impressive a litany of luminaries who had brothers and sisters. Let's see, there was Moses, Milton, Napoleon...
...Estaing invested Lévesque, to his surprise, as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and assured him of France's "understanding, confidence and support," whatever Québec's future course. At the National Assembly, Lévesque's arrival was via the Napoleon steps, an entrance last used by Louis XVIII in 1814, and he was accorded the unusual honor of addressing the Deputies. Lévesque did not disguise his emotion. Said he: "It is more and more sure that a new country will appear, democratically...
...illustration of all that Marat and Sade discuss--they are the Parisian poor, rightfully indignant against injustice in Marat's eyes, depraved in Sade's. The asylum guards are there, too, to underline the absurdity of the statement by the asylum director (Stephen Toope) that everything has changed, that Napoleon has brought demands for liberty, equality and brotherhood to fruition...
...readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults in me, whereas I see only one fault in you (but perhaps...
Nobody really minds that Tolstoy put words in Napoleon's mouth long after the event; it is the use of this technique for contemporaries, or the recent dead, that raises problems. Now that Herman Wouk is converting his bestseller The Winds of War into a television series, he was asked by Daniel Schorr about the propriety of giving to actors impersonating Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin words that the real figures never uttered. "You have touched a very live nerve," Wouk replied. "I don't know if anyone has the answer." But some try to answer: one successful scriptwriter...