Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later bought by Los Angeles' Oscar Mayer, a freewheeling dealer in antiquities. Mayer insured the pieces for $75,000; historically they are priceless-two splendid clues in a search back through the dark abyss of time. The sculptures have already caused great excitement in Paris, where Andre Malraux among others identified them as definitely "Olmequisant." Next week they will move on to Berlin's Akademie der Künste, and in December to London's Tate Gallery-a busy schedule for such deliberate and quiet sculpture, made in a vanished bubble of history...
Although the government said it had seized La Gangrène "to stress the infamous and lying nature of this libelous publication," inside the Cabinet angry protests against its seizure were made by André Malraux and Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet, a liberal Catholic who was once an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp...
...uneasy alliance against the anarchic Chinese warlords, Liu worked as a labor organizer, surfaced from time to time in Canton, Shanghai, Manchuria. Repeatedly jailed, he was a top underground leader in the harsh 1927 fighting in Shanghai between the Communist labor unions and Chiang Kaishek, described in André Malraux's novel Man's Fate. Liu's first wife reportedly tried to commit suicide at the party's underground headquarters, and he hired a ricksha to take her to the doctor. When criticized for not ordering a taxi in such an emergency, Liu, true...
...room hotel, a shopping center and three floors of parking space, to erect 25 acres of artists' studios. The only question was what kind of art could be produced in the atmosphere of a Left Bank Rockefeller Center. General de Gaulle's artistic czar, Andre Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs, gave his approval to the skyscraper. "If we accept the skyscraper, modern architecture will penetrate into Paris," he said. "If modern architecture does not penetrate into Paris, it will not penetrate into France...
First to react to the villa's imminent destruction was France's Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales, which set up a cry of "Save the Savoye," then took the case to famed Art Critic André Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs in the De Gaulle government. A storm of protesting cables came from British, Brazilian and U.S. architects, and at week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged...