Word: maritains
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...second section deals with four "magicians": Cocteau, to whom the book is dedicated, Maritain, Max Jacob, and Picasso. Sachs' devotion to these men amounts virtually to hero-worship--although he would probably be horrified at the word. And yet for the most part he is able to give fair estimates of their achievements. On Picasso, of whom he knows the least, he goes furthest wrong. After saying that Picasso's genius is so great that anything he may produce cannot be without value, an absurd supposition in reference to anyone, he compares him to Leonardo, and lapses into further unqualified...
...grandson of Bizet, composer of "Carmen," the grandson of Georges Sachs, the great friend of Anatole France and Briand, and of the Madame Straus Proust immortalized as Madame Verdurin, he was brought up among literary people whose reputations were already established. And later, as the protege of Cocteau, Maritain, and Max Jacob, he knew all that world of genius and bohemianism, so strange in its contradictions and all comprehending unity...