Word: gide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead"-was translated into a scandalous joke. Jarry enthusiastically drank absinthe and, near the end of his life, ether (he died at 34). At the theater he wore a dirty white canvas suit and a makeshift paper shirt with the tie painted on in India ink. He was, said Gide, "an incredible figure . . . plaster-faced . . . gotten up like a circus clown and acting a fantastic, strenuously contrived role which showed no human characteristic." He often carried firearms. Once he was shooting the tops off champagne bottles lined up against a wall behind which some children were playing. Their mother hurried...
...first page resembles Proust--what with tea-rooms, plumcakes, and the paste of sentiment. By page two, the narration switches to Gide's School of Sensitive Young Man Smelling Pressed Flower and Remembering Bath Tub Ring. There are three pages of Camus. And the rest of "The Bystander" slinks along in the ironic tradition of Colette and Francoise Sagan...
Albert Guerard is a Harvard English professor, and those of us who listened to his tales of Gide and watched Conrad on the psychoanalytic couch may well contend that his place is at the podium, as a critic. Anthony might be a spectator at his own doom, but like most heroes in the Age of the Common Man, he is more tedious than tragic...
...regulars, banjo-eyed Maudie and her mustached husband Willie, Earl of Littlehampton. Gasped Maudie in a supermarket: "Haven't you got anything-but anything-that's been touched by human hand?" But everywhere Lancaster went, he was impressed by the change in Americans and Americana: André Gide on drugstore newsracks instead of "a couple of Mickey Spillanes," polite cab drivers, even architecture "with a new restrained look . . . the severe but effective cliffs of steel and glass that now dominate Park Avenue." Furthermore, "voices are quieter, manners less rugged...
Died. Augustus Goetz, 56, playwright, collaborator with his wife Ruth since their marriage (in 1930) on adaptations (Andre Gide's The Immoralist, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and, most successfully, The Heiress from Henry James's Washington Square); of a heart ailment, after long illness; in Manhattan...