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...trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses." As these and other characters converge on Luala, Colquhoun stumbles on a series of weird goings-on-sacrificial rams and totemistic moles and a mysterious concourse of natives performing rites by a river bank. At Luala, near the sacred rock Bamili (where sacrifices had probably been held since...
...gentlemen on horseback at the Bois de Boulogne with Toulouse-Lautrec, or scale the white stone heights of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur with Utrillo, or decorate the Eiffel Tower like a Christmas tree, as Seurat's fancy did. Telescoping the centuries, one can see the coronation of Napoleon or Marie Antoinette in prison. Here is Paris drinking the cocktail of the sun, and here is Paris wrapped in the misty veils of a Salome. These books present a courtesan, the irresistible city of a thousand wiles, painted by her infatuated admirers...
...demand for 150 billion francs ($428 million) in new taxes. Last week, as the Assembly Finance Committee tore up Finance Minister Paul Ra-madier's tax plan (indirect levies which would fall heavily on upper-income brackets), there was a significant rise in the price of the gold Napoleon, a coin that Frenchmen traditionally buy when they become nervous about their country's currency. Suggestions that the franc be devalued* were described by Mollet as "crime and imbecility.'' Although his government faces a deficit of about $2 billion to $3 billion, the hard core of France...
...president, he persuaded Mormon leaders to shower the university with money. He also persuaded them to tell the church's stakes, wards and missions" to send him their brightest boys and girls. In some quarters, his brisk way of doing things earned him the title of "Little Napoleon." To others he was "the Little Dynamo." By 1953 he had so impressed his trustees that they put him in charge of the Mormon educational system, which includes one liberal-arts college in Idaho, one academy and one elementary school in Mexico, 116 full-time and 236 part-time seminaries...
...with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings." In following years he kept railing at the verbal beginnings of political dishonesty: Auden's talk of "necessary murder" in Spain, the Munich-era optimism of the Chamberlinian press (described in Coming Up For Air), Pig Napoleon's famous motto that "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." He kept emphasizing that there is a truth to all things, that this truth is often so simple that it is we who are too sophisticated to see it, "that however much you deny...