Word: eluard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again last week, O'Brady's modest talent enchanted Paris. Her art needed no guide; her portraits were recognizable. Among her sitters: Jack-of-Arts Jean Cocteau, Poet Paul Eluard, and John Steinbeck (who urged her to return to the U.S. and paint American workmen...
...Distribute sane literature. In the land of Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Moliere, Anatole France, Rimbaud, Eluard and Louis Aragon, there can be no support for a propaganda tending to lower the spiritual values...
That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...
...Paul Eluard, tall, elegant Surrealist poet turned Communist, emerged as the principal literary figure of French resistance. Hunted by the Gestapo for his anti-Nazi pamphlets and clandestine magazine La Pensée Libre, he finally hid in an insane asylum where psychoanalysts and nurses secretly tended Maquis wounded...
...mind clouded by an odd feeling of jealousy toward myself . . . knocked [my admirer] down and trampled on her with all my might." In the same year, suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter and bordering on insanity, he met his future wife Gala (then wife of Surrealist Poet Paul Eluard). To impress the Eluards, Dali decided to get himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind...