Word: cle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Past. Even the most fanatical Proustians will have to grant that Pleasures and Regrets, now translated into English for the first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life and love in the sickliest fin de siècle manner, soft-jellied tales about soft-jellied love affairs-this is the picture the reader gets of the early Proust...
...confused with Hollywood's Radiora-cle Jimmy Fidler...
Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), a rich young Englishman of the fin de siècle, was supposed to be the embodiment of youth's beauty and innocence. Artist Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore) was inspired by him to paint his masterpiece. But even as the finished portrait of Dorian stood drying, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) infected the young man's mind with the dread of losing his youth and with the amoral desire to seek experience for its own sake...
...young and vastly different one. And there is nothing, the older generation decides, that can be done about it. The younger generation is represented by Mike Melendy, Vaughan's grandson. "Mother's mixed up," he says. "So's Dad. I'm demi-siècle...
...line generals were in the ascendancy at the Army's top, the Nazi party bosses had no intention of losing their control over the rank & file. Unabashedly they borrowed an old idea from their bitter Russian enemy: an arti. cle in Hermann Göring's Essener National-Zeitung disclosed that political commissars were being assigned to Wehrmacht divisions to bolster German soldiers' morale, political philosophy and will to resist throughout the war's "decisive phase...