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Another former cover subject (he has appeared there twice) is France's Andre Malraux, art historian, revolutionary, novelist, flyer, archaeologist, Resistance hero, politician-and now De Gaulle's culture commissar. Fresh from his gala at the White House with the Kennedys, Malraux in Manhattan had some eloquent words to say on the subject of mass culture. Even the New York Times, which yields to no one in its readiness to print long texts of politicians' dull speeches, missed this lively one, which we quote from extensively in Modern Living...
Said one: "I don't think one cat could do all that." The only reason he was sitting it out at home the night that 168 celebrities were attending the White House blowout for French Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux, explained Columnist Leonard Lyons, 55, was that he had unwittingly written himself right off the guest list...
...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...