Word: andre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proust submitted the first part of Remembrance of Things Past to a firm of which André Gide was a member. Gide turned it down. Later, after Proust had published it at his own expense, Gide wrote him that "the rejection of this book will remain . . . one of the most poignantly remorseful regrets of my life . . ." With infinite grace Proust replied: "Had there been no rejection ... I should never have had your letter...
Symphonie Pastorale. A subtle, emotionally complex French film based on an André Gide story; with Michele Morgan (TIME...
...world who had surrendered his U.S. passport, he was a pathetic lone voice. By last week he was the leader of a surging popular movement. It had surprised him as much as anyone, and it was carrying him along on its crest. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre cabled...
...TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre, who was visiting Spain last week, a Madrid policeman said: "Things are bad and getting worse. We're getting into an inflationary situation. I have a wife and child, and my pay is 14 pesetas [about 50? on the free market] a day. I can't manage much longer. I hope to go to France. I hate to leave Spain, but I'll go anywhere I can make a living...
...less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing at all to Arnold Toynbee, Edmund Wilson and the "Big Three" of psychology (Freud, Jung, Adler), whose words have become only-too-painfully"familiar...