Word: proust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existence is as sheltered now as it always has been. But in the 12-ft. square workroom, whose old-fashioned uncurtained windows overlook a half-acre of English garden, she has made a world of her own. It is not a cork-lined invalid's retreat like Marcel Proust's, with the shades drawn; nor a chamber of nightmares like James Joyce's, where after dark all the familiar objects break up into strange & sinister shapes. Visitors who feel at home in Virginia Woolfs world say it is a room with a view...
...from the audience, is a mild "how now?" Born in Wollaston, Mass., now a widow of 40, professionally eccentric Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children, Three-Cornered Moon, They Shall Not Die, Ethan Frame) is said to like gefullte fish, poppyseed tarts, icecream sodas, Clos-Vougeot, Marcel Proust, Groucho Marx, alley cats, French poodles...
...central character is Anthony Beavis, a dark-haired, full-lipped individual who looks like a meditative child. His particular artistic dislike is Proust, for he considers Proust's absorption with the past repellent and perverse. Anthony is living with resentful, brown-haired Helen Ledwidge in the south of France when the story opens, and he has, Author Huxley establishes with his backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls...
...Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France's present Socialist Premier Leon Blum, he was still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have his captains and kings departed but that their tumult was a weary gibberish, hardly destined to outlive them. Bravely he concludes that they had "a common touch of frustrated nobility ... of genius," that "they are men like...
...Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. Now 65, punctual, precise, New England-ish, Guy Cox likes to fish, farm, browse through his favorite authors, who include Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Proust, Havelock Ellis...