Word: litte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many a bewildered layman, Paris Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 65, often fails to appreciate the strange distortions of his more abstract contemporaries. On the front page of Paris' Figaro Littéraire, he tells why: "I have never seen anything in geometric form except a means . . . to establish the architecture of a picture . . . The abstract painter is to the art of the great masters what military maneuvers . . . are to the real art of warfare...
...amazing series of adventures. Colin, who would have found it hard to get into the editor's office of Figaro on Monday, wrote Figaro's front-page literary essay on Wednesday. A short story that Colin could not place on Monday appeared Thursday in Les Nouvelles Littéraires. By Saturday his novel was being serialized in France-Dimanche, a sensational weekly. All week the presses roared, boosting the total printing of his book (a modest story about a group of adults who try to recapture the happy camaraderie of childhood on an estate in the Sologne region...
...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
...Flinching. In his 60s Smith was once rummaging through a bookstore when he met a clerk who shared his enthusiasm for the writings of 17th Century Jeremy Taylor. Bound by this quirk of taste, the old littérateur and the young clerk became close friends. After 17 years as Smith's apprentice and companion, that clerk, Robert Gathorne-Hardy, has written a fascinating memoir of his master's life...
...Littèrateurs. In Toledo, Ohio, Lawrence A. Ostman, his wife Helen and her daughter Virginia each won a $300 refrigerator for their entries in the same why-I-like essay contest...