Word: proust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proust's insufferably stuffy Marquis de Norpois to Lawrence Durrell's womanizing George Pombal. A former British diplomat gives the French high marks for intelligence and credits their exhaustive training with producing minds that "operate with a rapidity and lucidity that is the envy of their colleagues." In any major capital of the world, invitations to French embassy affairs are valued above all others, and the French display what may be their greatest diplomatic asset-supreme elegance. The Quai has, of course, failures as well as successes. Some embassies are shockingly bad, especially those heavily manned by former...
...Greek -are the generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...
...born of rich bourgeois parents with a passion for the arts, at 20 published his first volume of poetry, La Lampe d'Aladin. Its success plunged the reedy young poet into the world of Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky. Many give him credit for scattering ideas in a dozen surrealistic arts, but it will never be clear precisely who inspired (or copied) whom. Of Cocteau's ballet, Parade, Andre Gide wrote: "Cocteau knows the sets and costumes are by Picasso and the score by Satie, but he wonders if Picasso and Satie...
During those years beneath the blue lantern, Colette held court much as Proust did in his cork-lined room. Her blue eyes ringed with kohl, her curls carefully brushed over her immense forehead, she received friends sitting up in bed, nibbling garlic and sipping champagne. But she no longer wished to meet the young: "I dread them. It is in the course of nature for declining strength to be scared of up-and-coming new forces. The children who write me letters lay claim to great timidity. But it is for those of my age to feel timidity, almost...
However professionally exciting it may be to hunt down water symbols in Poe, or Proust, or Pope, the humanist cannot forget that his primary responsibility is to the national culture, not to the Modern Language Association, and that oncoming generations, through they should be generously encouraged to believe that beauty is its own excuse for being, must also be strictly taught the changeless meaning of the three most powerful words in any dialect--justice, virtue, and love; concepts that arise out of history in spite of the fact that, or because, history too frequently denies them. The imperative task...