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Much of what she found concerned Porter's interest in new-fangled machines. Trudging behind his portable studio as a young man, he had conceived of an airship with the possibility of freeing Napoleon from St. Helena. Most of his notions were more down to earth. With typical inventor's zeal, he sought to devise easy solutions to practical problems. When he saw his wife laboring over the scrub board, he invented a washing machine. In 1846 he published plans for a Broadway elevated railroad, preceding by two decades the first...
...been talking about splitting off parts of the company in which they have influence and, in alliance with bankers, setting up separate enterprises. Complaining of internal dissension, Cornfeld pointed to "those maniacal guys on the board." Cornfeld still has about 15% of the company's stock, and, like Napoleon trying to come back from Elba, he has been jetting from country to country, seeking to gather proxies from his sales managers for a triumphal return to power...
...Egiises, 120 miles southeast of Paris. More aloof than ever, he has received only a handful of the faithful, and has refused all requests for private political discussions or larger meetings. De Gaulle's notes from Colombey, written in his proud hand, are as highly prized as were Napoleon's scribblings from Elba. His invitations to lunch or dinner are as rare and valued as "an invitation to dine privately with Brezhnev or Mao," to quote one old Gaullist, who has not made...
...This painting is now in the centennial exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Many of the pieces in this show, taken from different ears and countries, indicate that they had no premonition of being placed in a museum: a Chinese vase, a Gothic Madonna, chairs designed for Napoleon, each made to glorify some person or cause, and not addressed to the museum viewer...
...responsible for the outcome. It is this drama of historical responsibility that Merleau-Ponty lays bare for us in Koestler's novel, in the trial of Bukharin, and in the exile and assassination of Trotsky. Such responsibility, and the anxiety and willfulness which it inspires, makes of politics, as Napoleon said, the modern tragedy. One ought not to be surprised then, that most of the personal drama of politics lies in the ways men have found of living with that responsibility, or of avoiding...