Word: napoleonism
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...Napoleon who inadvertently ended her ordeal. Toppled from power after a series of disastrous defeats, nearly lynched by a mob, Godoy fled into exile, never to return. The countess lived on in Spain with at least one consoling memory...
...devoted to 17th-century music by Buxtehude, Purcell, Monteverdi and others; the second half offered 20th-century works by Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, two Harvard-connected composers -- Walter Piston and Daniel Pinkham--and others. The most unusual part of the program came with Jacques Casterede's settings of three proclamations of Napoleon (well narrated by Robert Brooks), winding up with an over-whelming musical representation of the Battle of Waterloo for brass and full percussion...
...Gaulle last week prolonged for nine months Gaullist General Paul Ely's tenure as chief of France's joint chiefs of staff, and named as army chief of staff Gaullist General Louis Le Puloch -of whom one French officer nervously remarked: "When it comes to discipline, Napoleon was a softie compared to Le Puloch...
...Hamlet Puzzle. Shakespeare survives because the next to the last word can be said about him-but not the last word. His creations are as opaque as life's; his characters remain inexhaustibly baffling. Next to Jesus, Napoleon, and Shakespeare himself, more may have been written about Hamlet than any other subject. The problem seems simple: Why does Hamlet take so long to kill the King? Goethe's answer was that Hamlet was an intellectual whose habit of "thinking too precisely on the event" sapped his will. Subsequently, Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones fashioned a Hamlet with an Oedipus complex...
...missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...