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...French surrealist Louis Aragon could call himself, in the title of one of his books, Paysan de Paris, Joseph Cornell was certainly the Peasant of New York, incessantly tilling and raking its cultural deposits and suppressed memories. They presented themselves to him as a vast, intriguing jumble of components, waiting to be grafted onto one another, fitted together, married and mated. He once wrote about seeing a collection of compasses in the window of a shop: "I thought, everything can be used in a life time, can't it, and went on walking. I'd scarcely gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Linking Memory and Reality | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Films will present the premiere of its ten-minute ballet film, "The House of Bernada Alba" at the regular subscription series showing of Paysan tonight in the Geographical Institute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Premiere | 5/8/1956 | See Source »

...elite's cool hilltop villas overlooking Port-au-Prince, the roar was all too audible. It was le rouleau compresseur -the "steamroller" as Fignolé's Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called -trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The New President | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Paysan Smith, Massachusetts State Commissioner of Education, will speak today at the Liberal Club, 66 Winthrop Street, at 1.20 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Address Liberal Club | 5/15/1924 | See Source »

...trials held last week, the cast has been chosen for the Corale Francais play. "Has du Divorce", by Alexander Bison and Anthony Mars. The cast is as follows: Henri Duval, F. S. Allen '16 Bourganeu, J. S. Abreu '14 Champeaux, V. Freedley '14 Corbulon, P. L. Cable '14 Un paysan, W. G. Rice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEROLE FRANCAIS CAST | 11/11/1912 | See Source »

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