Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nature, but Cézanne often treated them like so much scrap; he even lighted the stove in his Provençal studio with works that might now be worth as much as $16,000 each. Only the foresight of his friends and early admirers-Gertrude Stein. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro-saved those that are left...
...Elusive Corporal. "The young man who has not wept is a savage," said George Santayana, "and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." In Grand Illusion, made in 1937, when he was 43, Jean Renoir wept for the worlds that die in wars. In Corporal, made last year, when he was 67, Renoir laughs for the worlds that are born in debacle. And while he's about it he laughs at the ridiculous ideas people have about freedom. Renoir's laughter is contagious. Nobody will consider his new war film as fine...
...till at last he reaches Paris. And what does he find in Paris? Germans. He has escaped from a little prison into a big one. The whole world, Renoir seems to be saying, is a kind of prison, and the only freedom a man really has he has inside himself. Stern words, but Renoir says them with an old man's smile...
...Renoir, My Father, Renoir...
...Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Schulz (3) 3. Silent Spring, Carson (2) 4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (4) 5. The Points of My Compass, White (7) 6. Final Verdict, St. Johns (6) 7. My Life in Court, Nizer (5) 8. Letters from the Earth, Twain (10) 9. Renoir, My Father, Renoir (9) 10. The Pyramid Climbers, Packard...