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WALTER S. SWISHER Orr's Island, Me. (aetat...
...Author. A citizen more of Europe than of France, Remain Rolland was one of the few top-flight intellectuals who not only tried to prevent the late Great War but refused to succumb to it. The result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept...
...woman with white eyes," to listen unsympathetically to her news, to announce that life is literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however, she retires to a New England cottage to write her reminiscences, get them off her mind. Then she will go some other place, do something else...
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