Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centuries since its construction began, the secluded Château de Rambouillet, located 33 miles from Paris, has housed a long list of illustrious guests, including Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte. This weekend the château will again make history by serving as the site of the world's first postwar summit meeting devoted exclusively to economics. The three-day gathering will bring together government chiefs of six nations that account for roughly 70% of the non-Communist world's production and trade: U.S. President Gerald Ford, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Japanese...
Robbe-Grillet's The Man Who Lies, tonight, 7:30 p.m., Abel Gance's Napoleon, Wednesday...
...gained a reputation for unflinching physical courage. A three-time winner of the Medal of Military Merit, Franco was promoted to Spain's youngest captain at 22, major at 23, colonel at 32, and, at 33, he became the youngest general in Europe since Napoleon...
Well, there you have it, characterization of a cross-country coach who has spent a quarter of his life leading the Crimson harriers but who comes out looking like a cross between Napoleon and Rodney Dangerfield...
...seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe of Beethoven, Hegel, Napoleon and Goethe, the rude frontiersman was patronizing: his own land was the democratic future, free of the Old World's privileges and wars. "Every stroke of the ax and hoe," Henry Adams wrote sardonically, "made him a capitalist and made gentlemen of his children...