Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GUIGNOL'S BAND (287 pp.)-Louis-Ferdinand Cèline-New Directions...
...turn the phonograph up to maximum volume, lie on the floor, fasten one end of a rubber hose over the bellowing speaker, the other into one's ear. A simpler way of being pounded to jelly is to read a novel by France's Louis-Ferdinand Cèline. No rubber hose can convey the feel of Cèline, nor can his own favorite exclamations, such as "Bam!", "Bang!", "Zoom!", "Zimm!", "Rrpp!", "Rrooo!", "Rraap!", "Rrango!", "Whah...
...Directions has just published a translation of Guignol's Band, third novel of Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This contemporary French author is unknown to the majority of American readers, but in Europe he is one sort of successful writer: the controversial kind. At a time when it is difficult to be truly Avant-garden, he qualifies, and his followers consider him a permanent figure in French letters...
...your article . . . the views of Dr. Ferdinand Eckhardt were given on the permanent collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It is only fair to state that, as the former director of that gallery on a three-year contract from November 1950 to November 1953, I arrived at approximately the same conclusions and last October handed Dr. Eckhardt my written report...
Died. Prince Ernest von Hohenberg, 49, younger son of Austria's Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo (1914) touched off World War I; of a heart ailment; in Graz, Austria. No friend of Hitler, Prince Ernest once smashed an illuminated swastika sign with his umbrella in Vienna, spent the next five years (1938-43) in a German concentration camp...