Word: gide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Lorraine, Marianne Colin took her stage name from a stage character she much admired, unhappy Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts. For her, not only Cocteau but Andre Gide, Louis Aragon, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Yvain have written songs...
...eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...
...Algiers, shortly before his sensational trial for pederasty, Oscar Wilde said to French Novelist Andre Gide: "Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life-I have put only my talent into my works." Like many another Wilde wisecrack-Biographer Winwar believes-that one had a solid core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism. His genius consisted in living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England...
...announced from a jury box that under no circumstances would he vote for conviction in a prohibition case. The unnamed school in this, his first novel, need not be St. Mark's. His Winter Term need not be compared to such first-rate treatment of adolescents as Gide's in The Counterfeiters. But it is intelligent, humorous, sympathetic, in spots if not in toto should ring chapel bells for former inmates of the hundreds of institutions he suggests...