Word: dreyfusism
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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...
...even the life of a wealthy, pampered dandy could not go undisturbed. Proust's father, a successful physician, was a Catholic; his mother, whom he adored and whose image dominated his life, was Jewish. When Marcel was 23, the Dreyfus affair split France, and the young man instinctively rushed to the defense of the Jewish captain. In one of the few political acts of his life, Proust circulated petitions for Dreyfus' release. The echoes of the affair rang in his novel years later; after the bigoted behavior of his aristocratic Parisian friends, Proust could never write long about...
...parental discipline, Proust had suffered from asthma. The illness was, he knew, at least partly "a nervous habit," and though it struck him severely through most of his adult life, he refused to submit to thoroughgoing treatment. Instead, he isolated himself in his cork-lined room. Stung by the Dreyfus affair and aroused to literary ambitions, he found himself "weary of insincerity and friendship, which are almost the same thing." After his mother's death in 1905, the shaken, 34-year-old Proust withdrew from society more & more...
...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...