Word: nathanael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raggedy men knelt to fire is now the corner of Broadway and 116th Street. Volume III is remarkable in following the often neglected fighting that took place late in the war in the Carolinas, pitting Cornwallis and Banastre Tarleton against Daniel Morgan and Washington's then heir apparent Nathanael Greene...
...their pieces and peered southward across the waters. Alarm guns roared to alert northern batteries and fortifications in the woods along both east and west shores of the island. Major General Israel Putnam hastily ferried over from Manhattan to Long Island with 500 men to support Brigadier General Nathanael Greene's four regiments on fortified Brooklyn Heights. Here a line of redoubts and breastworks zigzags for some two miles between Gowanus Creek and Wallabout...
Brigadier Gen. Nathanael Greene...
...that his client faced while being held captive by the S.L.A. The jurors were taken to see the two closets that Patty claimed had been her tiny prison cells after her abduction. The expedition turned out to be a mob-and-media event that might have been conceived by Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust...
...Nathanael West's cool, cruelly funny novel, first published in 1939, has become a classic vision of the heart of Southern California. West, who did some screenwriting himself, knew the raw fringes of the movie world. He saw the kind of anxiety that led people to Los Angeles and the gaudy madness that was nurtured there. He used Los Angeles, and particularly the tawdry glamour of Hollywood, as a perfect metaphor for the screaming end of many poor dreams of glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need...