Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House-sponsored acknowledgment of culture was spreading all over Washington. Last week Novelist Thornton Wilder came to town to read from his works at a "Cabinet Evening" in the State Department Auditorium; he stayed over for a White House dinner this week honoring French Minister for Culture André Malraux for which the guest list was heavily studded with actors and writers. "Washington," said Wilder grandiloquently, "is becoming like a lighthouse on the hill for those things for which we spend our lives...
...Paris the plastic bombs went off all week long. One exploded at the house of Culture Minister André Malraux, but the famed author of Man's Fate was not at home. The detonation drove 300 splinters of glass into the face and body of four-year-old Delphine Renard, whose engineer father occupied the ground floor. Doctors last week operated in the hope of saving her sight...
Aspiring & Striving. "All of us French intellectuals have had to come to terms with the same problem," he told a friend last week in the U.S., where he is currently on a lecture tour. "Camus and Sartre and Malraux saw life the way I did-as meaningless and absurd, with war the most meaningless absurdity of all. And yet, instead of withdrawing and doing our best to avoid suffering, which would be the logical course, we all worked hard and risked our lives in the Resistance. Why? Another way of asking this is: What...
...hand; his is a case in which a painter has been more ignored than unknown, since his work has long been embalmed in the musty, state-run Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris. Not until the Louvre, apparently at the instigation of Culture Minister André Malraux, put on a big Moreau show last summer (TIME, July 21) was the general public suddenly informed that Moreau should be remembered not only as the brilliant teacher of Matisse and Rouault but also as an artist with special pertinence today: alongside his stilted and sickly mythological scenes, Moreau also turned...
SUMER: THE DAWN OF ART, and THE ARTS OF ASSYRIA, both by Andre Parrot. These splendid books are the first two in a 40-volume survey of man's art. The project's guiding hand, as might be expected, is that of that homme perpetually engage, Andre Malraux...