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Rotten writing is scarcely a new problem. Napoleon's script was so miserable that one of his generals once mistook a letter of his for battle orders. Charles Hamilton, a Manhattan dealer in autographs and manuscripts, contends that Writer Gertrude Stein's oblique prose style may be explained by the fact that compositors often misread her cryptic script. Poet William Butler Yeats often could not read his own work. Horace Greeley, the editor of the old New York Tribune, had a notoriously illegible scrawl. He once scribbled a note to a reporter telling him he was fired...
...thousand feelings of rage," she writes, hoping to understand "in what way, by being in power or opposing it, those people determine our destiny." She is convinced they are "not really better than ourselves; they are neither more intelligent nor stronger nor more enlightened." Leaders now safely dead, like Napoleon or Frederick the Great or George Washington, never had to cope with such a phenomenon, which may be one reason why contemporary political leaders often seem so small...
...enormously wealthy monarch, Shah of Iran, King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, who dreamed of creating an economic and military superpower that would recall the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great. He developed an imperial ego to match his vision, placing his crown on his own head like Napoleon, dismissing all opposition as "the blah-blahs of armchair critics" and boasting that "nobody influences me, nobody...
...married Film Producer Alexander Korda. Her 1933 portrayal of Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII made her a star. Divorcing Korda in 1945, she went on to play such Hollywood roles as George Sand in A Song to Remember and Josephine opposite Marlon Brando's Napoleon in Desir...
With people starving throughout the world, I fail to understand how the U.S. can afford to sell huge quantities of wheat to the Soviet Union so that the Communists can continue to skimp on their agricultural infrastructure in favor of weapons production. Napoleon said it: "An army travels on its stomach." If the Soviets are hungry, let them eat guns...