Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exit. A competent cinemadaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's celebrated attempt to demonstrate the existentialist tenet that hell is other people...
Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. The author, who as a boy sat for his father, the great impressionist painter, now turns portraitist, and his biography is one of the most likable in years...
...fire of this earth." To St. Thomas it was a sort of overheated sideshow that the saints in heaven were permitted to watch in order to "enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly." To the poet Shelley it was "a city much like London." To Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose most celebrated theatrical tract can now be seen in a free cinemadaptation, hell is just a cheap hotel room...
Turmoil & Calm. The Barbizon artist most misunderstood in later years was Jean François Millet, whose studies of peasants, notably The Angelus and The Man with a Hoe, splashed him with a reputation for sentimentality. Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature...
...Awful. Among the books most bragged about are the most notable flops. Jean Stafford's Elephi is repellingly saccharine, worse even than Lesley Frost's (the poet's daughter) Really Not Really, in which life (really) and fantasy (not really) are carefully trussed into sweet little packages. Poets Ogden Nash and Phyllis McGinley, both of whom are capable of better things, have written companion books (Girls Are Silly and Boys Are Awful) that are silly and awful...