Word: dreyfusism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dreyfus Echoes. At first glance, the letters seem only the posturings of a dilettante, but this impression soon wears off. Proust's letters display a remarkable transformation in character: from an effete youth to a sharp observer of the tragedy in life, from a superficially clever snob to a mordant analyst and remorseless judge of snobbery...
...photographs were selected from 65 prints entered in the competition. Top awards went to Mare G. Dreyfus '47 2G, Alfred M. Weisberg '47, and Cervin Robinson...
...week's end, the Journal-American persuaded itself that the story was "already the most sensational cause célèbre since the days of the Dreyfus case in France." The Communist Daily Worker announced darkly that it "was timed with the negotiations for a peace settlement in Germany-and timed to prevent such a peace settlement...
...prominent politicians and attach himself to none; he should always be in the orchestra stalls, but never jump on the stage." Some could not resist jumping. In 1899, the Paris correspondent reported Queen Victoria's indiscreet telegram to her embassy, expressing horror at the verdict against Alfred Dreyfus. The exclusive story would have created an international sensation, but the dispatch was killed. "It was not for the Times," says the history, "to indulge in such triumphs...
Bloch had grown up in Geneva-a Geneva seething over the Dreyfus affair-the son of a clock merchant. He studied music in Brussels, Munich and Paris, but when his father's business went bad, he came home to help. As a child, he learned from his father the Jewish lore and emotional melodic strains that permeate his music, but he dislikes being classified, as he often is, as a racial composer...