Word: gide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the trend towards slim volumes, there are several hefty tomes in HUP's spring line. This season's list includes a 916-page edition of an Indian text, a 880-page Harvard guide to psychiatry, and a 750-page life of Andre Gide...
...playwright Eugene Ionesco died in Paris last week. Not to worry: the Theater of the Absurd is alive and well at Harvard. An improvisational troupe, which performs every Sunday night in random locations, provides immense entertainment for beleaguered students. In keeping with the principles developed by Ionesco, Beckett, and Gide, the dramatic group refers to itself with a symbolically august title: the Undergraduate Council...
...turned into press centers. True, the main street of Albertville had become a huge window display for such arcana as smiling M&M's on skis, a version of the Olympic mascot, Magique, made entirely of chocolates and other gadgets Olympiques. Billboards around town featured uplifting quotations from Andre Gide and Catullus, while discos offered such unlikely come-ons as "La Nuit du Single People." But for the most part, the Savoyards seemed unaffected by the world's sudden attentions, and by the nomadic pin traders spreading their wares along the street...
Barry Gifford, on whose novel the film was based, blames the critics for the film's lukewarm reception. "The faux intelligentsia can jump on or off a bandwagon," he notes. "Andre Gide said that writers should expect to lose 50% of their audience with each new work, that the rest never understood it in the first place. Perhaps that has happened to David...