Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nursemaid. But the overriding consideration has been his concern for the future of France. As he is well aware, France can play no significant international role while the Algerian deadlock persists. "This army," he said recently, with rarely voiced affection, "the best that France has had since Napoleon, is wasting its time playing children's nursemaid in Algeria, when its place is on the Rhine and in the laboratory." And so long as Algeria remains unsettled, France cannot play the grand role De Gaulle envisions for it in international politics. The Arab world remains hostile, and the danger that...
...France, by D. W. Brogan. Like an aging actress. France has lived on the memories of past applause, at Versailles with the Sun King, at Austerlitz with Napoleon, in the Age of Reason with Voltaire. As distinguished Historian Brogan sees it, Charles de Gaulle is gradually teaching his people the importance of living in the 20th century. For the first time, France is borrowing culture: existential philosophy from Germany, film making in the laconic U.S. documentary style. The transitional ferment will continue, predicts Brogan, as France has more youngsters than oldsters for the first time in a century. Most striking...
...rough translation-bawls the ten-year-old heroine of Zazie dans le Métro, a new French film currently packing Paris cinema houses. While her contemporaries practiced the piano, Zazie practiced les belles four-lettres. She learned her French history ("Napoleon! That jerk gives me a pain, with his bowlegs and his corny hat"), dreamed of a career as a schoolmarm ("so I can beat the stuff out of the brats"), until she heard that teachers would soon be replaced by machines, and decided instead to be an astronaut ("so I can beat the stuff out of the Martians...
Both men seem to have yearnings for aristocracy. Loewe murmurs now and again that his mother was a baroness, and Lerner is proud that his present wife is an indirect descendant of Napoleon. Lerner would be unlikely to cross a street unless the trip made reasonable sense, but Loewe once flew with a friend from Los Angeles to Vienna just to taste again those wonderful Little Wiener Wrsteln, (Vienna frankfurters) that "spit in your mouth." Then he got on another plane and flew back to California. It was an epically impractical journey, but it did, however briefly, take him home...
...Orchestra; Victor). A rare lapse of genius, the so-called "Battle Symphony," written in 1813 when the composer was at the height of his powers (he had just finished the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies), is a fascinating but vulgar and bombastic ode to Wellington's victory over Napoleon. Frankly composed to make money and originally intended for the panharmonicon, a sort of early stereo machine built by a German inventor in which nine different types of instruments were operated mechanically, the piece includes a rumbling God Save the King, an absurdly tinkling For He's a Jolly Good...