Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working for the publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes en Papier} written when he was 20. was poetic prose. His five subsequent books have all been based on his experience in the Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves to talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting in on conferences with Paul Yalery, Count Keyserling, Aldous Huxley, Jules Romains...
Legends of a Golden Age or a Garden of Eden are probably dim memories of the lost homeland whence the restless Sumerians drifted into the Euphrates Valley. They knew how to use the wheel and the arch, how to irrigate their lands, and they had begun to write, Belief in immortality is indicated by the sacrifice of servants after a royal death. Clay cups were always found in the tombs beside the victims, and Dr. Woolley's energetic wife guessed that they drank a narcotic or poison. Her husband finds this plausible, makes bold thus to recreate a royal...
...Restless travelers both, both endowed with a seeing eye, Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos view the world through spectacles differently tinted. Huxley is an intelligentsiac, Dos Passos a neoCommunist. But both are as free as any lances to be found these days, and their eyewitness reports make worthwhile reading for stay-at-homes...
...teacher. No mere portrait painter, he was able at his best to make a face reveal a biography. Of his portrait of Charles IV and his family Theophile Gautier said that it looked like a butcher's family that had just won a lottery prize. He expressed his restless virility best in etchings and drawings which showed movement - street scenes, bullfights. Blues, browns and greens were his favorite colors but he was not afraid to be brilliant: one of his self-portraits shows a palette of ten colors with white and red together and most prominent. During his last...
...oath, returned to China followed by such neophyte Buddhists as a French perfumer, a filling station manager, a professor's widow, an Italian composer. Chao Kung opened a monastery of his own, drew crowds with his lectures in Chinese and English. But last year he was still restless. Resolving to carry on his evangelizing in the West, he growled: "I will stand no more nonsense from any government...