Word: clemenceau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern and Western religions, with a healthy measure of Western-style hero-worship thrown in. The Cao Dai, whose temples were adorned with the Masonic eye, considered as major deities Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed. They harbored in their pantheon of lesser deities such people as Marcus Aurelius, Georges Clemenceau, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Jefferson. Winston Churchill was enshrined after 1945, but Charlie Chaplin was considered and dropped as a candidate for sainthood at about the same time...
...Clemenceau would have been appalled by the ambiguity of the gathering. On the other hand, Metternich might have delighted in its very lack of definition. Both European statesmen, however, would undoubtedly have recognized the potential historic significance of a meeting that gets under way this week in the starkly beautiful Finlandia House in Helsinki. In the white granite building's lofty concert hall, 35 foreign ministers from Europe, the U.S. and Canada will convene for the formal opening of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe...
Thirdly, as Clemenceau noted, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Because lower-class women and children, particularly those who have done time, rarely publish autobiographies, the extent to which prison authorities have in general abused the absolute power granted them under indeterminate sentencing is difficult to establish. Clearly, though, the potential for abuse is there, as it is whenever men are granted access to total control over others. According to many observers, that potential is being realized. Among those who feel that the absolute power is being abused is Ramsey Clark. Clark, a supporter of the indeterminate sentence...
...book is fascinating because of the astonishing variety of Armstrong's encounters: Serbian patriots, Yugoslavian royalty, Poincaré, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt. He savors characters like Rumania's giddy and theatrical Queen Marie, who once told him, "Like clowns [royal families], amuse people, even with their funerals." One night in Madrid, Ernest Hemingway, otherwise charming, kept threatening to seek out Novelist Louis Bromfield and beat him up for some obscure slight...
...after Boulanger shot himself over his mistress's fresh grave, his former political patron, Georges Clemenceau, produced a suitably cruel epitaph. "Boulanger," sneered the Tiger, "died, as he had lived, like a subaltern." Now, in the first complete biography of Boulanger, English Historian and Musicologist James Harding offers to set the record straight. Sexual infatuation as well as drugs, he concedes, played a part in the general's rise and fall. Poor and provincial, Boulanger was wounded six times in battle before becoming a general in the French army at the comparatively young age of 42. The last...