Word: rard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Maneuver. René Clair, vintage 1956, brut-a bubbling tale of love and languishment; with Michele Morgan, Gérard Philipe (TIME...
Yale taste ranges generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh...
Today Bérard lives alone in a little furnished room in Paris all week, takes the train south to see his wife every weekend (riding free with a special railway employee pass). After a four-year search, he still cannot find a room with a kitchenette in Paris. Living in a hotel with his wife and eating their meals in restaurants would be too expensive...
...Communist. But he has joined the Red-led Confédération Générate du Travail, and he is swallowing Communist propaganda. The Communists predicted German rearmament, defeat in Indo-China, economic misery. "It's the only party that tells the truth," Bérard argues. Deep down, Jean is less a militant pro-Communist than a bitter man protesting. More than anything he would like to be somebody else. "If my parents had money, I would have been a student, and I think I would have been a good one," he says...
...RARD'S dull, dangerous protest is typical of the logic of some 5,000,000 Communist voters of all ages. But he is a rare bird among youth in that he has, by some kind of thinking process, related his own troubles to a need for political action. Most young Frenchmen refuse to make the connection or simply cannot. Everywhere in France youth's political feelings can be characterized in a single word: indifference...