Word: claudell
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...being dropped into some Sunday-morning coffin slot on network, it went out on prime time on PBS, straight to 5 million refugees from electronic gunk. The size of this audience would not have impressed Fred Silverman, but enough people tuned in for their weekly fix of what Paul Claudel called "l' allure du vrai gentleman Anglais" to make a star of Clark. Thus he became the Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts, a fate that enormously surprised him: once, after running the gauntlet of hysterical fans at a ceremony in his honor at the National Gallery in Washington...
...familiar sign of aging, of course, to be surprised at change in general and changed prices in particular. But perhaps the true sign of age is acceptance. "Eighty years old!" Paul Claudel wrote in his journal. "No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And how astonishingly well one does without them." The S.M.A.P., who still retains most of his faculties, also retains a childish capacity for surprise...
...crowd was cheering everything, from Yaz and Loo-ee to Claudel Washington and even Flight 502. An occasional cry went up for Luis Alvarado and Jose Santiago (remember them?). Four fans sang the national anthem...
...collection. including the first Swedish translations of the Vicar of Wakefield and The Citizen of the World. First editions of Balzac, Stendahl, and Baudelaire. A theatre collection which includes letters of Booth, working scripts of Jean Renoir, letters of John Gielgud, and manuscripts of Shaw. First editions of Appolinaire, Claudel, Camus. Four of Bonhoeffer's manuscripts, written during his imprisonment. Letters of Gorki and Pasternak, of Joyce, O'Casey. Eliot, and Yeats. Working papers of John Updike. A copy of Churchill's Step by Step that John Kennedy owned while an undergraduate...
...collection, including the first Swedish translations of the Vicar of Wakefield and The Citizen of the World. First editions of Balzac, Stendahl, and Baudelaire. A theatre collection which includes letters of Booth, working scripts of Jean Renoir, letters of John Gielgud, and manuscripts of Shaw. first editions of Appolinaire, Claudel, Camus. Four of Bonhoeffer's manuscripts, written during his imprisonment. Letters of Gorkii and Pasternak, of Joyce, O'Casey, Eliot, and Yeats. Working papers of John Updike. A copy of Churchill's Step by Step that John Kennedy owned while an undergraduate...