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Money Is Better. As the "scarlet epidemic" spread, it became more distinguished to reject than to accept the award. Degas, De Maupassant, Clemenceau, Gide, Sartre and Camus all allegedly turned the Legion down. Offered the medal in lieu of payment for his famed requiem commissioned by the government, Composer Hector Berlioz snorted: "To hell with your Legion of Honor. I want my money." But a refusal cannot be worn in a buttonhole, and thousands of other Frenchmen still openly court the award...
...Aladin. Its success plunged the reedy young poet into the world of Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky. Many give him credit for scattering ideas in a dozen surrealistic arts, but it will never be clear precisely who inspired (or copied) whom. Of Cocteau's ballet, Parade, Andre Gide wrote: "Cocteau knows the sets and costumes are by Picasso and the score by Satie, but he wonders if Picasso and Satie...
Beside him, Henry Miller is but a cheerfully smutty college sophomore, Sade a dilettant aristocrat of eccentric habits, Gide a genteel old lady sedately cultivating nightshade in her little kitchen garden...
Della Terza, a critic of modern Italian literature, has analyzed the work of contemporary French writers, including Gide, Sartre, and Camus, as well as that of Italian authors. Della Terza taught Italian literature at the University of Pisa, at lycees in Paris, and at the University of Toulouse before he joined the U.C.L.A. faculty...
...spent most of the time in the corner, gossiping-about what, she does not say-with Alice B. Toklas. When that masterful raconteur Norman (South Wind} Douglas asked her to hike with him across Italy, Bryher thought of the disgrace of failure-and said no. Introduced to Andre Gide, Bryher had so little to say that the Great Man cut short the interview by autographing a copy of his latest novel and, in obvious relief, rushed away...