Word: aragon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildly imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...
...then there were the parties. There was the night Isadora Duncan, plump and middleaged, yelled her favorite toast ("To Life and Love") and complained to Harold: "The others-they are so heavy." There was the night Louis Aragon and Malcolm Cowley started a living-room bonfire of books they didn't like, but full-bladdered e. e. cummings acted as a one-man fire department. There was the artists' ball at which Harold danced with a friend's wife, who was dressed in green powder and a black string...
...from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly drawn to the letter k. Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, would drop such remarks as, "I am as reflexive as a pronoun," or, "I feel like a letter printed backward in the line." The French poet Louis Aragon spoke for many bedeviled writers in his poem entitled "Suicide...
...week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 7). The kids danced to a big band in the Aragon Ballroom. In case anybody thought the recession was a problem, some of the members passed out buttons reading...
...Nobel prize for literature; of pneumonia; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When the Nobel announcement came from Stockholm, it rattled the ice in U.S. literary tumblers because few readers had ever heard the name. Editorial researchers scrambled, learned that Poet Jiménez was known from Aragon to Argentina as a kind of melancholy, Andalusian A. A. Milne, particularly for Platero y Yo,* a collection of prose vignettes spoken by the poet to his burro about life and death in a Spanish town (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957). At the outbreak of civil war, Jiménez and his Vassar-educated...