Word: mauriacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Powers is probably the only U.S. Catholic writer who can describe the devil inside with the authority of a Graham Greene or a François Mauriac. He writes as well as they do, and in finding his devil in the homely incidents of everyday life, rather than in adultery, murder and suicide, he is perhaps the truer shocker...
...State without Portfolio and went off into a vast chandeliered office, there (Socialists feared) to ponder fresh ways to get back to power. Mendès' newspaper L'Express groused: "This government does not correspond to the great hope aroused." And Catholic Commentator François Mauriac grumbled: "Don't let them think they can count on me any more...
...brooding Roman Catholic novelist, François Mauriac (Woman of the Pharisees, Therèse) has cared for his soul-and for the souls of his fellow literati-as assiduously as Voltaire advised Frenchmen to tend their gardens. The trouble with Mauriac's theologico-literary gardening is that he cultivates the weeds of sin rather more successfully than the buds of virtue. In his tormented view of the world, good wins none but moral victories...
Either way, Mauriac's point is as somber, remorseless and debatable as his novel, i.e., that the saints have only one reward at the hands of the world, and even of its professing Christians: to be killed by the poor sinning things they love...
...more than 400 actors and technicians, and its repertoire is so immense that it could give a completely different program every day for five years. It gives its actors a chance to play in, and its audiences a chance to see, such varied fare as Shakespeare and Beaumarchais, Mauriac and Montherlant. It combines the best of the old and the best of the new in France. Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault once said: "I have a god: the theater. When I entered Le Franç I entered a religion whose temple was La Comédie and whose pope...