Word: claudels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will tell them how anxious he is to solve the farm problem, will ask their suggestions. Meanwhile, a compromise farm bill will be constructed with his approval. Congress will pass it next winter and the President will have solved a tough knot. . . . Such is the predicted strategy. ¶ Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., called on President Coolidge, presented his credentials...
Daily he spent hours with a Japanese sculptor, and later with a Japanese musician. To the one Paul Claudel tried to describe the strange forms and shapes that stir in his mind. To the other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
...Paul Claudel a close friend has said: "His thoughts as he expresses them are extremely difficult to understand. ... He fashions words out of Latin and Greek roots, picks them out of all sorts of strange places, until you seem to be wafted on a bright, flying carpet woven all of butterflies...
Manhattan knows Paul Claudel because the Swedish Ballet Company danced his Man and His Desire just off blatant Broadway, three years ago; and recently the Theatre Guild produced his Tidings Brought To Mary...
Speaking from stout Saxon roots to Kansas Cityites, last week, M. Claudel said: "The Grand Canyon which I have just visited, is indeed a Hell of a hole, the most beautiful I've ever seen...