Word: napoleonism
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...Years); in London. An Oxford (Balliol College) brilliant (he was president of the Union [Debating] Society, testing ground of many a Prime Minister), swart, slick-haired Guedalla wrote biographies as brilliantined as his conversation, admired the tawry grandeur of the age he mocked best: the era of Bismarck and Napoleon III. His definition of biography: "a region that is bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium...
...demonstrating against the Government's ultimatum ordering guerrilla forces to disarm and disband by Dec. 10. A fortnight ago British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie had conferred with the EAM guerrilla leader, leftist General Stephanos Saraphis, and the EDES' leader, rightist General Napoleon Zervas. Zervas agreed to disarm his followers. Saraphis would not. General Scobie warned all Greeks: "I am convinced that in many parts of this country freedom of the people does not exist. ... [I am prepared to] stand by the side of the present constitutional Government until it has a national army under its banners...
During the whole course of Churchill's life, Britain had been engaged in a hidden or open life & death struggle with Germany. In World War I the struggle had bled Britain white. In World War II Britain had had her closest squeak since Napoleon. More than any other single man, Winston Churchill had saved the Empire and in doing so had saved Western civilization. But there had been a price...
...Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
Much of this subtly simple story is told through leisured close-ups of faces so well cast, in the Moscow Art Theater tradition, that they embody nations, passions, methods, doubts, like great restrained cartoons. These faces discuss the situation, and advance the story, with considerable dramatic intelligence. Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, and his catastrophic retreat, are child's play compared with their handling in Tolstoy's great novel War and Peace. But the retreat does have a certain grandeur, resembling that of the florid, romantic, 19th-Century military art from which its cinematic style is apparently...