Word: morand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare and the French Blockade Ministry. Pretty, serious, half-Polish Eve Curie (Madame Curie) prepared lectures on scientific subjects for the Information Ministry...
Cooperating with Mr. Cross in France will be Paul Morand, one of those literary public servants upon whom public life in Europe so often devolves. Morand's academic background is his link with professorial "Soldier Premier" Daladier; he attended Oxford University and the Paris School of Political Science. He has served in France's London, Rome and Madrid embassies but never dabbled in the world trade which he will now help govern...
Ballerina (Pathe Joinville-Cinatlantica). Brilliant cinema treatment by French Director Jean Benoit-Levy (La Maternelle) of La Mart du Cygne, Paul Morand's story about the backstage life of apprentice ballet dancers...
...ordeal. In studying the natives, with the insight Benga provided, Geoffrey Gorer came to the conclusion that white men cannot understand the mental processes of true savages, who have no time-sense. Before his journey was over, Geoffrey Gorer was prepared to accuse such writers on Africa as Paul Morand and William Seabrook of "naïve diabolism," of having written misleading reports. He believes that African Negroes, like the Amerindians, are doomed to extinction unless new methods of governing them are developed...
THIS sprightly offering from the pen of Paul Morand attempts to capture the flavor of today's Paris, and set it down for the edification of cosmopolitan and Philistine. Most of the comments concern street scenes, the markets, coster-mongers, cafes, street fairs, flea markets, gardens, and children. Fortunately, the book does not attempt to generalize about the beauty or the grandiloquence or the triviality of Paris, but presents only a collection of random pen-pictures of the city, which are pleasing in their familiarity, without being too cute. The book is no Baedeker, but it will give...