Word: rochefoucauld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surrealist Poet André Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes...
...Some are glorified by their faults; others are damned by their virtues," wrote La Rochefoucauld. And The Cousins, an Adult Fable which rolled in from France a while back on the crest of the "new wave," sighs that, though very sad, this is a fact of life...
...inescapable fact of life is death. Yet man usually refuses to face it. What La Rochefoucauld said in 1665 is still generally true: "One cannot look fixedly at either the sun or death." Result: "Concern about death," says the University of Southern California's Psychologist Herman Feifel, "has been relegated to the tabooed territory heretofore occupied by diseases like tuberculosis and cancer, and the topic of sex." To remedy this, 21 experts in religion, arts and sciences have pooled their knowledge in a new book, The Meaning of Death (McGraw-Hill; $6.50), edited by Dr. Feifel