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...modest Victorian himself was confused on one point: just how far down did a blush extend? A Frenchman had once told him that some bashful artists' models blush clear to their toes, but that hearsay evidence was not scientific enough for the great fact collector. Darwin wrote to his friend and portraitist Thomas Woolner, begging the advice of "a cautious and careful English artist" on the subject. Thanks to him, Darwin was able to state that "with English women, blushing does not extend beneath the neck and upper part of the chest," but Woolner got little credit...
This double dose of soothing syrup is intended to lull certain suspicions which France has about its Communist Party. A Frenchman who considers joining it or following it asks himself whether it is a French party, an international party or a Russian party. Charles de Gaulle engraved this doubt on French minds when he gave it as a reason for refusing to give the Communists the ministries of Foreign Affairs, War or Interior (police). The French remember, too, the Communist record between the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact and the German attack on Russia. Thorez himself symbolized that record by deserting...
...those with short memories, Hugues Panassie is that colorful Frenchman who "discovered" jazz in the early thirties and later went on to write two very widely circulated books about it. Le Jazz Hot, the first one, is considered something of a milestone in the history of the criticism of hot music. His other book, The Real Jazz, though not a milestone, has developed into a sort of bible for those above mentioned "purists...
...Tokyo art season-what there is of it-is a Frenchman who has lived in Japan since he was four. His show, on display last week, had the imposing sponsorship of the U.S. Fifth Air Force. An exhibition of 67 wood-block prints (and 50 paintings) of Ukiyo-e ("mundane life") subjects, it was a blend of East and West...
Among the foreign laborers who helped dig the Panama Canal was a hawk-nosed, angry-eyed Frenchman named Paul Gauguin. For about $4 a day he swung a pick ax, and earned enough money to go on to Martinique. Gauguin was beating a strategic retreat from the sun-spangled Seine of eight-Century French Impressionism to the blue and blood-red lagoons of Hivaoa in the Marquesas...