Word: arsene
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Lautrec and Bonnard. A perverse Robin Hood, he takes from the rich and gives to the rich-in this case himself. But like his society-thief predecessors, Raffles and Arsene Lupin, he has more to him than simple avarice. As he rifles the treasures of a boarded-up town house, waves of Proustian memories flood his brain...
Still Couve and his U.N. allies were speaking for a broad cross section of world opinion when they demanded a quick political solution to the war. The Ivory Coast's Arsene Usher asked that the U.S. make "a lofty gesture by ending the bombings," and even Assembly President Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan argued that only a nation as powerful as the U.S. could afford to lose face in the interests of peace. Yet why should the U.S. be the only party in the war to make concessions? Foreign Minister Joseph M.A.H. Luns of The Netherlands had the bitter...
...good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable...
Died. Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...
...Arsene-Henry sighed and signed...