Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Napoleon knew that man can't thread a moving needle. When a woman complained to the Emperor that she had been raped by one of his officers, he handed her his sword and asked her to sheathe it while he moved the scabbard...
...woman said she could not as long as he was moving the sheath. Napoleon replied that if she had done the same thing, she never would have been raped...
...name, Nicholson is in the first flush of excitement at being a household word right now, and he is handling it with the respectable glee and half (but only that) the mocking humor of a sort of cutup prince regent. He is talking to Stanley Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...could say whether the President entertained such thoughts at San Clemente last week, but it seemed unlikely. What, then, was he thinking about in his private den? An aide offered the curious detail that the President had been absorbed in a biography of Napoleon. Had he been brooding, perhaps, about the exiled French leader marking time at Elba as he waited for the tide of opinion in France to change? No one could say. At midweek, a television set was wheeled into the conference room at the Western White House for the benefit of the staff; but in his study...
IRVING KRISTOL, U.S. writer, professor and editor (The Public Interest): Abe Lincoln is the prototype-the leader who is uncommon but not beyond emulation by the common man. He's not a Napoleon. This is American democratic politics. You don't want a world conqueror. In latter days John Kennedy had that uncommon-common quality; so did both Roosevelts, T.R. and F.D.R., although they were distinctly below Lincoln...