Word: andre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the cagey Europeans had got first attention at the best hotels and villas, the U.S. was hard-pressed to find quarters for its delegation. Not until the middle of last week did President Eisenhower have a place to lay his head on the summit. Then Mme. André Firmenich, Scottish wife of a Swiss millionaire perfume-maker, consented to rent her 15 room Chateau du Creux de Genthod because "we could hardly refuse to offer it to the President...
...Despair. For 300 years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other. That dialogue animated the 27-year correspondence between Poet-Diplomat Paul Claudel, an unswerving Catholic who never doubted God, and André Gide. the backslid Protestant who never doubted the individual-a controversy generally conducted in scrupulously courteous and self-Centered letters, but frequently so agitated that one or the other broke off the correspondence. They ended by not speaking to each other...
...Action. In these debates, one notable intellectual stands apart. He is André Malraux, a remote figure never seen in the cafés but constantly quoted there. Though he chooses seclusion, Malraux is the man who, supremely among his contemporaries, has lived the challenges of his troubled times, participated in the bloody angles of recent history. The best use a man can make of his life, Malraux proclaimed, is "by converting as wide a range of experience as possible." While the cafes debate the struggles between idealism and revolution, Malraux lived them. He has helped organize Communist strikes...
...Nehru. In his dazzling transitions and far-flung references, he is a conversational wonder of the world made the more difficult to follow by his nervous facial tics and a constant snuffling into his hand caused by lifelong asthma. He is too intelligent for me," his brilliant old friend, André Gide, once confessed in admiration...
Turning Life to Account. Originally Flemish, the Malraux family were for 300 years shipbuilders at Dunkirk. André Malraux's grandfather was a fierce little man who for 22 years attended Mass kneeling on the ground outside, in rain or wind, because of a quarrel with the church authorities. He had a prejudice against insurance, and when a storm sank his whole fishing fleet off Newfoundland, the Malraux family fortune was wiped out. André was brought up by his mother, who ran a small grocery shop in a Paris suburb...