Word: claudels
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...steam engines (Pacific 231) and sports (Rugby). Then he bit off a chunk that many a musical better-Verdi, Gounod and Tchaikovsky, among others-had broken a tooth on. He began work on an oratorio on Joan of Arc. French Poet (and onetime Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel provided a mystical, introspective text...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, by Arthur Honegger and Paul Claudel; with Vera Zorina, Jarmila Novotna, Nadine Conner, and the Westminster Choir...
...bejeweled countesses and duchesses in the lobby recoiled as a barefoot, plaid-shirted pilgrim from the Left Bank stalked past them. Communist Poet Louis Aragon stood near Catholic Poet Paul Claudel, and close by was Protestant Novelist André Gide. The opening night that attracted such a variegated audience to the Théatre Marigny promised to be the most exciting of the Paris theater season. And the promise was kept...
...Paul Claudel, onetime Ambassador to the U.S., whose Tidings Brought to Mary hit Broadway some 25 years ago, was finally inducted into the French Academy...
...Catholic priest, Jean Natal Grosjean for his metaphysical poem Terre du Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic mainstays, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and dislikes Catholic poets Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory I would be an anarchist. I believe the path of progress that is natural and beneficial...