Word: pompey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Dana Wynter and Richard Egan star in The View from Pompey's Head. Color...
...scholar from New Orleans who exiled himself to Connecticut in 1944, but kept trying to go home again with leisurely re-creations of the South's social distinctions, ancestor worship and tribal customs (from lynching to channel bass fishing), most successfully in his 1954 bestseller, The View from Pompey's Head; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
...progress as De Gaulle's deputy was intently regarded by French politicians. It is widely believed that if De Gaulle should decide not to run for re-election next year, he will designate Pompidou as his successor. Even if De Gaulle does run, as still seems likely, "Pompey," as Americans in Paris call him, is becoming more important in the De Gaulle administration, chiefly as a link between the austere, lofty leader and the French businessmen and small bourgeoisie...
...tactics of the Gallic wars (as Caesar did in his own Commentaries), but considering that a million tribesmen were killed and another million taken prisoner, Warner's account of the campaigns is curiously bloodless. All the other facts are equally familiar-the First Triumvirate, the attempt by Pompey and a senatorial faction to curb Caesar's growing authority, the crossing of the Rubicon and the outbreak of civil war, Pompey's flight and Caesar's mastery of all Italy. By couching his narrative in the first person, supposedly in the hero's own words...