Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect on the intellect and the crusty narrow insolence of the specialist who may know his field but little else. The theme is all-pervading, whether the man be a worker turning one bolt on a factory belt or a student of history endlessly annotating the private life of Napoleon...
FORTY CENTURIES LOOK DOWN - F. Britten Austin-Stokes ($2.50). Historically accurate, interesting but awkward novel of Napoleon's military and marital strategies in the Egyptian Campaign of 1798; the second installment of bold Romancer Austin's super-serial covering Napoleon's major campaigns...
...Evans was "thrilling and memorable" to the Herald Tribune, "triumphant" to the Times, "majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates one of the vainest, cruelest, weakest monarchs the English ever had to tolerate. Sensitive at all times, Actor Evans rises to his greatest dramatic heights when Richard returns...
...thesis that Paine's notoriety had its source in political rather than religious causes, but in his Tom Paine he gives more room than his predecessors have to the part played by Paine's personal makeup in turning him against Congress, his onetime heroes Washington, Burke, Robespierre, Napoleon...
...Ambassador Gouverneur Morris, paying off old grudges, was chiefly responsible for Paine's ten months in prison, his close escape from the guillotine, but it was Washington whom Paine blamed, accusing him of sacrificing their friendship for a treaty with the hated English. It pleased Paine when Napoleon praised The Rights of Man, said to him, "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." But when he discovered the wily Frenchman merely wished him to lead an armed raid against the English, he turned on Napoleon his greatest barrage of invective...