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...CHIPS ARE DOWN (165 pp.)-André Gide-Knopf...
...easy to leave the world, Santayana wrote, once we know what it is. If Santayana was suggesting a satiety of the mind, André Gide, in his 81st year, was more keenly aware of a flagging of the senses. He had discovered a word from the Greek for it, anorexia (lack of appetite), but he added: "I find it hard to console myself for not knowing Greek...
...paragraph, Hamlet-like in itself, sums up the strengths and the weaknesses of André Gide: "I hope the young man who may read me will feel on an equal footing with me. I don't bring any doctrine; I resist giving advice; and in a discussion I beat a hasty retreat. But I know that today many seek their way gropingly and don't know in whom to trust. To them I say: believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt everything, but don't doubt of yourself. There is more...
...were in uneasy alliance against the anarchic Chinese warlords, Liu worked as a labor organizer, surfaced from time to time in Canton, Shanghai, Manchuria. Repeatedly jailed, he was a top underground leader in the harsh 1927 fighting in Shanghai between the Communist labor unions and Chiang Kaishek, described in André Malraux's novel Man's Fate. Liu's first wife reportedly tried to commit suicide at the party's underground headquarters, and he hired a ricksha to take her to the doctor. When criticized for not ordering a taxi in such an emergency, Liu, true...
...Manhattan, Gallery Owner André Emmerich has published A Preface and Four Seasons, which combines the pleasant, anecdotal reveries of Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw with five signed lithographs by fast-rising U.S. Abstractionist-in-Paris John Levee, 35. The text accompanying Levee's Images of European Summer (see color) draws on Shaw's own expatriate ramblings, summons up visions of "the sea calm, the sun hot. Everybody lazy and on holiday." Offshore a party on an aircraft carrier makes "the final perfect touch against the violet horizon." Sales to date: eight (which included a signed gouache...