Word: aragones
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...portrait of a woman with a mustache." Two days later, the party Secretariat announced that it "categorically disapproved ... of the portrait," added: "Without doubting the sentiments of the great artist Picasso, whose attachment to the cause of the working class is well known, [we] regret that Comrade Aragon, member of the Central Committee and director of Les Lettres Françaises, permitted this publication, the more so as he had been fighting in other ways for the development of realistic...
...late it had sunk to a lowly 80,000. L'Humanité, the morning paper, was also sharply down, but "L'Huma" is the certified mouthpiece of Communism in France. Last week Ce Soir announced that it was going out of business. Its editor, Author & Poet Louis Aragon, had an explanation of sorts: "American pressure . . . and the boycott of firms working...
...from the library of Grenoble (Stendhal's birthplace) and transcribe the muddled pages of handwriting. The result, now translated into English for the first time, has been praised by some critics as the masterpiece of Stendhal's career. "Nowhere as in Lamiel," says Poet Louis Aragon, "is the real world to be found in Stendhal...
...Orwell's outfit were mere children, all were badly trained, few knew how to fire a rifle. Orwell, who had once been a policeman in Burma, was appalled when he was handed his weapon, an 1896 German Mauser with a corroded barrel. Assigned to a section on the Aragon front, his ragged company of 100 went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry-go, patrols, digging; digging, patrols, sentry...
...tried to restore Catholicism in England, but the fires of her persecutions only hardened Protestantism, increasing its popularity and making its triumph inevitable. She had a personal reason for being anti-Protestant: when her father, lusty Henry VIII, defied Rome and nullified his marriage to her mother, Catherine of Aragon, for a time Mary had to renounce her royal claims and style herself a bastard. She was an honest, well-intentioned woman who withered everything she loved and unintentionally fostered what she hated. To please her husband, Philip II of Spain, she enlisted England in a disastrous and unpopular...