Word: andr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show up. And then we all had to bow down like he was God. I used to wear low-heeled shoes so I wouldn't be taller than the men." All that changed when Beverly took up painting and went to live in Paris. She studied with Painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger in Paris, then moved down to the Riviera, where she rented Pablo Picasso's former apartment and tried doing modish abstractions. A few months later, she was traveling in North Africa, and there, in the squalid, poverty-stricken towns, she discovered what...
Another defendant, André Simone, said that he had established liaison with agents of the "Overseas News Agency," identified as a branch of the Jewish Information Service, at a seafood restaurant in Manhattan between 45th and 46th Streets. Simone asked the court for hanging. "I can be happy," he said, "with no other penalty...
...CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN PAUL CLAUDEL AND ANDRÉ GIDE (299 pp.)-Pantheon...
...turn of the century, Paul Claudel and André Gide were beginning literary careers, Claudel as poet-playwright, Gide as novelist. In temperament and opinion, they were opposites: Claudel a zealous Roman Catholic, Gide a tormented doubter who could neither accept nor dismiss the Christian faith. The two men became cautious friends, and in 1899 began a correspondence which sputtered and stormed until 1926. Their letters, now published in English for the first time, give a fascinating picture of two first-rate minds locked in a long quarrel about ultimate realities...
Thus, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway described André Marty, French Communist leader who during the Spanish Civil War was inspector general (i.e., a sort of roving henchman) in the International Brigade. Behind Marty was another French Communist, Charles Tillon, recruiting volunteers. In World War II, Tillon organized the Communist underground in France. Among French Communists, Marty and Tillon were known as des durs (tough guys). Last week the tough guys, who in their day had purged hundreds of comrades, were themselves the victims of a party purge...