Word: aragones
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...Distribute sane literature. In the land of Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Moliere, Anatole France, Rimbaud, Eluard and Louis Aragon, there can be no support for a propaganda tending to lower the spiritual values...
...Author. Aging (62) François Mauriac, a leading Roman Catholic opponent of the Franco regime in Spain, joined the resistance movement during World War II. Producing clandestine pamphlets, newspapers and books with such fellow writers & artists as Communist Poet Louis Aragon, he learned to respect the fighting qualities of the Communists. After the war he sought for a way to bring the U.S. and Russia together, has since decided that compromise is impossible. He now writes editorials for Paris' conservative daily Figaro, advocating a strong, vigilant western world under U.S. leadership...
...Religion made out of three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...Berenice, this normally irresistible Paris playboy has hardly mussed her hair. Berenice is waiting for the perfect spiritual as well as physical love-though willing to take on a casual lover to help the time pass. To offset Aurélien's tedious lack of success with Berenice, Aragon keeps several other affairs going at a gamy clip in & out of bedrooms. No coincidence is too blatant, no cliche worn too smooth: ("How's Martha? I wasn't going to ask you. Ah, poor darling, marriage is one thing and love's another...
There are moments when panels of the Paris of 1921 are briefly and brilliantly lighted up-fashionable house parties where the company is picked to create tensions, the conversation is acrid and infidelities are always in the making; arty gatherings and cafe parties which recall the days when Aragon was the darling of the Dadaists, days of his early prose poem: "The salmon sheen of silk stockings at the hour when cities are aflame. . . ." But readers who remember Aragon's ruthless, panoramic novels of prewar France (Residential Quarter, The Century Was Voting) will find none of the old satirical...