Word: mauriacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seine, and colleagues discovered his wife and four children living in an abandoned factory, sleeping on old rags.) Others think the trouble is deeper seated, and will not be settled until judges are confined to judging, and kept out of jury rooms. Wrote Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac last week: "There is no criminal case today in which the principal defendant is not French justice...
France's famed Roman Catholic novelist, Francois Mauriac, said the book was clearly written by the devil, and that did not harm its sales. He might have said the same of many other Frenchwomen's novels, notably 32-year-old Danielle Hunebelle's Philippine. The pretty young thing of 20 who tells the story manages to seduce a man of more than 50 after failing with his wife. "Had anyone objected," the heroine declares, that loving "leads to hell, I would have replied that one wins one's soul in losing...
...would take Leon Blum's place - and he is a successor to Blum in many ways - is not a Marxist. The perspective would not be pro-Marxist; it would be New Deal." Old Virtues. Another recruit to the New Left is Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, chief editorial writer of the influential Figaro, who has professed him self disillusioned by his old party, the M.R.P. "Because certain leaders of the M.R.P. seem to have forgotten the ideals of their youth," he wrote, "thousands of Christian Democrats are ready to regroup themselves...
Servan-Schreiber, pointing with pride to "the exceptional nature of a meeting on the political plane between Pierre Mendés-France, liberal statesman; François Mauriac, inspiration of the Christian left, and André Malraux, the revolutionary guide who renounced nothing which united him with De Gaulle," concluded: "Here are the men from whom the rising generation can draw reasons for ... believing again in the virtues of political action...
...days, the heroes and heroines of religious novels were "good" people who practiced what the parson preached. Nowadays, as in the novels of Graham Greene and Mauriac, the religious hero is more likely to be a fallen fellow who depends for salvation solely on the mercy of God. In his first novel, U.S. Poet Dunstan Thompson has tried to avoid both extremes...