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...little known partly because it was painted behind the Iron Curtain, partly because it was rarely noteworthy. Obviously Stalin may not know much about art, but he knows very definitely what he doesn't like. Stalin goes for the stiffly illustrational sort of painting that made the late Academician Isaac Brodsky a Kremlin favorite. Among Brodsky's best tries...
Observed 74-year-old Novelist Gide: "I am too well known, my reputation is too big, and I am too old." (Academician-Admiral Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze...
When French Academician Charles Maurras was sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration, one newspaper commented: "What a long time for an Immortal!'" Last week the moribund Academy, with 14 of 40 seats vacated by prison terms and natural deaths, muffed its biggest chance in 300 years for a new lease on life...
...almost finished its case. This week, counsel for the defense will summon its witnesses. Few doubted that the case against the Marshal, the national need to repudiate a national humiliation, would end in the old man's condemnation. But for most Frenchmen the trial was embarrassing. Wrote Academician François Mauriac, a leader of the leftist Front National, in Figaro...
...French Academician Andre Siegfried, author, economist and world traveler, after 50 years of reading U.S. newspapers, paid them a Gallic compliment. The U.S. press, said he, "has reached maturity but without having lost its youth. Especially it has preserved its real genius, which is that of a reporter. It is interested in everything...