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...MEMORY SERVES-Sacha Guitry- Doubleday, Doran ($3). By the time Sacha Guitry was five years old he had become accustomed to the strange passions that periodically seized his father. During a quiet dinner the boy would be startled to observe Lucien Guitry frown fiercely, cry out for no reason such things as, "My lord, you are a nobleman and I am but a commoner, yet I dare tell you that any man who insults a woman is a coward!" Or. with a melting tenderness, the father would stare unseeingly at his son and murmur, "Clementine, I would give my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guitry's Growing-Up | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...close of Red Army maneuvers, French General Lucien Loiseau told the official Red newsorgan Pravda, "In regard to tanks I consider the Red Army the first in the world. Frankly, I wish we had one like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...Paradoxical though it be," says Dr. Roback, "most of the major Jewish philosophers of the present day are not willing to own up to any Jewish influence." Henri Bergson stoutly denied that either his style or his ideas revealed any Semitic traits. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, distinguished anthropologist, thought his work was typically French. But the question, Dr. Roback thought, was not likely to be settled by comparing the work of known authors. He hit on the idea of trying to sort Jews from non-Jews in the writings of unknown persons. Accordingly he persuaded a colleague to let him have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Jews Think | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

There arose a distinguished group of portraitists of the primitive mind-Frazer, Sumner & Keller, Malinowski, Boas. One of these was Lucien Levy-Bruhl, longtime professor of the University of Paris, who published his first noteworthy treatise in 1884, followed by Primitive Mentality, How Natives Think, The "Soul" of the Primitive. Last week from the pen of Professor Levy-Bruhl, 78, appeared Primitives and the Supernatural,* a meaty summary of how the sons of the wilderness regard the unseen powers, benign and malevolent, that preoccupy virtually every hour of every day of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powers Unseen | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...salad days Mrs. Henderson had a court painter of her own, a crippled Civil War veteran named Lucien Whiting Powell. Seventy-six original Powells were in the sale last week. His widow got two of them for $60 apiece, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Henderson Sale | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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