Word: andre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still heartbreaking to read of the butchered-or merely disenchanted-talents who served an ignoble cause for noble motives. Here again is the sorry drama of betrayed idealism, told piecemeal before but never in such cool, meticulous detail. To André Malraux, who flew in combat, the Republican cause was man's hope. Wystan Auden, who drove an ambulance, melted his prosody...
Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by civilized...
...Illusions. Hardly anyone had predicted easy going for the President, even in friendly France. "The fellow who'll be doing all the talking." wrote Austin Wheatley in the Detroit News, "will be Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. The New Frontiersman will run into a very old Frontiersman. He probably knows what he's up against-a man aloof, lonely, enigmatic, humorless, sometimes Machiavellian, sarcastic, self-confident, courageous, irritating, pigheaded, visionary, indispensable and a hard bargainer." Frank Conniff, national editor of Hearst papers, suggested more succinctly that Kennedy might find the old general "teeth-breaking...
Sumer: The Dawn of Art, by André Parrot. A handsome display of bookmaking devoted to some of the earliest art works fashioned by man in his first major civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Under the general editorship of André Malraux, Sumer is the panoramic premiere of some 40 volumes that promise to reduce the celebrated "Museum Without Walls" to paper...
...Mankind should begin with Sumer, for it was there, in lower Mesopotamia-the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers-that the world's first major civilization was born. The book might have degenerated into a dry catalogue of archaeological finds; but the author of the text, André Parrot, a chief curator of the Louvre, is happily free from fustiness. Text and illustrations have been carefully synchronized: what the eye reads, it can also see at the same instant...