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...lien (680 pp.)-Louis Aragon, translated by Eithne Wilkins-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
From Aurélien, readers would not be likely to guess that handsome Author Louis Aragon is the intellectual showpiece of France's Communist Party. Written while Aragon kept one jump ahead of the Germans as a prolific pamphleteer of the Resistance, this novel steers clear of both Communism and World War II. Aurélien is the typical, almost standard, Gallic love story in which a wife knows how to stay out of the way when her husband's mistress turns up. Aragon seems as slickly at home in this tradition...
Outside of Marsiaschin's grip on the left guard spot, the starting lien-up is still in a fluid state been though the team has been worlding out for over a month. Taking over at a new school, with material of an unknown quantity, is not the easiest thing for a coach to do, in any event. In Barclay's case it was particularly difficult, for, outside of Mariaschin, John Gantt, and Pete Petrillo, whom he could watch in motion pictures of last year's games, he was starting from scratch...
...Rouault was an out-at-elbows modernist and Vollard was an up-&-coming dealer, one of the few who bought modern paintings. He gave Rouault a studio in his own house and advanced him 50,000 francs (then $10,000)-thereby obtaining all his work in progress and a lien on future paintings...
Said Idler respecteth Bard Jonson--and bard Ursula--and being not of mind to destroy the aura of the era doth present said play unexpurgated. They do prove themselves Leatherheads, for they do Overdo said masque in Quarlous manner, guzzling ale in lien of Cokes, articulating so to Troubleall, and showing more than respectable Edgeworth of petticoat which scarce would Winwife, much lest two matriculated freshmen...