Word: napoleonism
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50; and NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor; 13 sides; $7). Two versions of Beethoven's heroic symphony whose original dedication to Napoleon Bonaparte was canceled because the Bonaparte pretensions displeased the composer, present the customers with a tough choice. The Walter version is warm, well-recorded the best of recent Philharmonic discs. The Toscanini job is full of Beethoven's energy, but the recording-taken from a radio performance-sounds boxy...
Judging by the squadrons of bewigged waiters who invaded every bedroom scene and by the insipid acting of Ruth Chatterton, one might say that the private life of Napoleon and Josephine was neither very private nor very lively. In fact, it must have easily been the most prosaic, uninteresting marriage since the birth of modern times...
Ruth Chatterton proves once again that her career should have ended with the advent of the talkies and that her figure ceased to be alluring some fifteen years ago. As for Pierre Blanchar, he is an unconvincing Napoleon to begin with. A habit of throwing extra r's into every word he utters does not serve to make him any more prepossessing...
Next day sleek "Roarin' Bob" Reynolds of North Carolina took the floor, held forth for two and a half hours of teary, sob-voiced argument for isolation. Said Senator Reynolds: Hitler is no more of a menace to the U. S. than Napoleon was in 1808. He insisted that the bill had nothing to do with the defense of the U. S., proposed sarcastically that its title should be changed to: "A Bill for the Defense of the British Empire at the Expense of the Lives of American Men and at the Expense of the American Taxpayer...
...minutes of football, baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung the exasperated, encouraging, profane cry of the sergeants: Work, not magic, makes a soldier. (Hey, you, quit dopin' off-you can't learn it lying...