Word: andre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Engaged. André Tardieu, 60-year-old threetime (1929, 1930, 1932) bachelor Premier of France; to a Mile. Julia Angelique Largenton; at Chaumont-sur-Taronne...
Like Thomas Mann for Germany, like José Ortega y Gasset for Spain, André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French Author Gide's reputation is enormously greater than his popularity. He had never written a best-seller until, at 67, he visited what he thought was the Promised Land, returned to confess that he was mistaken...
Though he went to Russia prepared to find nearly everything praiseworthy, André Gide found much to criticize. Of the much touted Stakhanovism he says...
...Criticism merely consists in asking oneself if this, that, or the other is 'in the right line.' The line itself is never discussed." The censorship of two adjectives in one of his speeches showed André Gide the line even a distinguished visitor has to toe. He had referred to Russia's destiny, was told he would have to say "glorious destiny." He had referred to a great monarch, was told he would have to delete "great." A longtime champion of homosexuals, he was shocked at the Soviet law condemning homosexuals to five years' deportation...
...André Gide found himself growing more and more antipathetic to the orthodox ''revolutionary" line: "The spirit which is today held to be counter-revolutionary is that same revolutionary spirit, that ferment which first broke through the half-rotten dam of the old Tsarist world...