Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligent study of a representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp of the works and lives of Bernard Shaw, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Blake, George Fox, H. G. Wells, Henri Barbusse, Hermann Hesse, Van Gogh, T. E. Lawrence, Nijinsky, Sartre, Camus, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Gurdjieff and Sri Ramakrishna, not to mention many lesser figures. But what makes The Outsider a compelling intellectual thriller is that Author Wilson uses bits and pieces of these...
Early in April a young, black-haired French officer-candidate named Henri Francois Maillot deserted his comrades in the 504th Transport Battalion, and went over to the Algerian rebels with a truckload of guns and ammunition. His reason soon became apparent: Maillot was a Communist...
...rebel detachment near Orleansville. After a quarter-hour's firing they came upon five rebel dead, one of them a European with henna-dyed hair. Something about him looked familiar. When soldiers daubed his hair with black liquid dye, there was no disguising the features of Traitor Henri Maillot, his body riddled by 14 bullets fired by the comrades he had deserted...
...Seedbed. Few men have been more eloquent on the subject of America than Jacques Barzun, and he got to his present position by his own intellectual route. The son of the literary scholar, Henri Martin Barzun, he spent his boyhood among some of the foremost artists around Paris. Novelists Jules Romains and Georges Duhamel were constant visitors, so were Artists Fernand Leger, Albert Gleizes and Marcel Duchamp. "It was," says Barzun, "a seedbed of modernism. Apollinaire dandled me on his knee. Marie Laurencin did a sketch...
...Exodus. In 1917, Henri Martin Barzun came to the U.S. on a diplomatic mission, but when the time came to go home he decided to stay. While America's lost generation looked for a spiritual home abroad, scores of French scholars and artists sought refuge in America from the wave of cynicism sweeping over Europe. After a stay in Britain, young Jacques arrived in the U.S. "in ridiculous short pants and ignorant of baseball." But he was ready to enter college at 15½. The college he chose was Columbia. "To anyone from Europe, Columbia was the American university...