Word: eluard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belonged to it. It seems to me that all those who have made the discoveries and the greatness of surrealism, have over the last 20 years either left or have been 'excluded.' (To name a few: Picabia, Magritte, Giacommeti, Brauner, Tanguy, the artists, and Crevel, Desnes, and Eluard, the poets.) For me, surrealism will continue to be represented by poets such as these, rather than by the mediocrities clinging to the masthead of Andre Breton. No wonder he is lonely! I am sorry...
...Save-the-Rosenbergs" movements were started in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Strings of placarded pickets paraded outside the U.S. Embassy in London's Grosvenor Square. French Poet Paul Eluard's last thoughts before his death last week, according to a cable his daughter sent to Paul Robeson, were for the Rosenbergs. L'Humanité also ran an article by the Communist-line U.S. Author Howard Fast: "Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are good, honest, courageous people. They are innocent...
Burgeoning with a Breast. Dominguez graduated from the student-artist class the day he met Surrealist Andre Breton in 1935. Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...
...Paris sophisticates were delighted with the show. Orson Welles, Painter Georges Braque and Poet Paul Eluard were all on hand at the opening. Another poet, Jacques Prévert, had written a catalogue foreword which described Miró as "a smiling innocent gardener who strolls about in the garden of his dreams among the wild flowers of Multicolorado." It was a strange country, but Miro's multicolored Multicolorado did exert a cloudy charm on sympathetic visitors-just as children's paintings often...
...second, they are encouraged to occupy themselves also with the things of the world. In their crowded dormitories are pin-up pictures of movie stars and sports figures; their bookshelves contain volumes by Karl Marx, A. J. Cronin, Saint-Exupery, and Communist Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. From the chapel come the strains of Old Folks at Home and Negro spirituals with new French words. Such music is considered to be "in touch with the mass suffering of our times. It is full of the plea of peoples who have lost touch with Christ...