Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither is willing to become human, to grow up. Jules sees that he cannot hold her. "Love her," he pleads with Jim...
During a recent BBC symposium. Author Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis reported that it is declining particularly among younger people "who enjoy American products without a sense of guilt and without a sense of superiority." Emphatic agreement came from Historian Marcus Cunliffe of Manchester University, who reported that the younger intellectuals "if anything, are almost too pro-American: many younger English people have a sort of Americanophilia because they have established in their own minds the contrast between our allegedly soporific, boring, class-ridden culture and this crackling culture across the Atlantic." American jazz, painting, architecture, and highbrow paperbacks all suggest...
...Jules and Jim see a sculpture, the head of a woman smiling. Sometimes her smile is the omniscient smile of Sophia, sometimes it is the saurian grin of a Lorelei. They fall in love with the smile...
Jules and Jim (Janus) are friends. Jules is short and round and Austrian. Jim is tall and skinny and French. They live in Paris of 1912, and are almost as young as they feel. All day they write poetry, all night they run after girls. For relaxation they sneer at money and doodle on café tables. Sometimes they box, and once they share a widow...
Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are the whilom heroes of a gay, grotesque little novel by the late Henri Pierre Roché, now made into a gay, grotesque little movie by France's François Truffaut (The 400 Blows). Charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise: the film is an exercise in contradiction, a clutter of inconsequence transformed by imagination as a trash heap is transformed by moonlight...