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...confide to any notary or parish recorder, sacristan, or surogate, in Stratford, the genesis of the delicate creation?" And George Steiner, writing of Painter's biography of Proust, said that it was so explicit, gave so many details of Proust's life that bore directly on A la recherche du temps perdu, that no reader of the biography could possibly respond to the novel in a fresh and unprejudiced...
...univesre is a precious legacy. In some respects, it is the vision of a hedon, an atheist, an existentialist, a stoic. Its consciousness is sexual as well as poetic, political as well as phenomenological. "The politics of emotion must appear/to be an intellectual structure," he says in Esthetique du Mal. Of a prototypcial dogmatist, he says
When Mary Tapie de Celeyran, the Comtesse Attems, was hard up for cash to repair the family's Chateau du Bosc and wished to sell ten family portraits by her famous uncle, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, she did not offer them to the public at an auction house or a public art gallery. Instead, through an intermediary, she got in touch with Private Dealer Charles Slatkin in New York, who bought all ten and eventually sold them to one of the U.S.'s shrewdest collectors. Not untypically in this secretive trade, the collector insists on remaining anonymous...
...than reproduces our preconceived, caricaturing impressions of it. You Can't Take It With You is still a funny play, and if you've never seen a Kaufman and Hart farce, you might trip on up to Agassiz. If only to hear the Andrews Sisters sing Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen during intermission...
...half the saints on her calendar. Even bishops have reopened discussion on doctrines that were recently thought to be as unassailable as the existence of God. For some, Pope John's revolution and the Second Vatican Council have seemed nothing short of a betrayal. For others, including Francine du Plessix Gray, 39, the new, questing spirit of Catholicism became an uncomfortable problem after private doubts had driven them away from a religion they thought to be irrelevant and outmoded...