Word: romaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist faith as Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast and a whole bevy of Daily Worker staffers: ex-New Masses Editor Joseph North, his onetime Executive Editor A. B. Magil, Ben Field. It included at least one former Communist Party official: V. J. Jerome (real name: Isaac Romain...
Last week, 189 years after his death, George Frederick Handel was more widely talked-about than ever. Sir Newman Flower's revised edition of his scholarly George Frideric Handel, His Personality and His Times had just been published in the U.S. (Scribner; $6); the late Romain Rolland's Essays on Music (Allen, Towne & Heath; $5) had a fat chapter on him. Handelian Robert Manson Myers had written a book-Handel's Messiah, a Touchstone of Taste (Macmillan; $5), out next week-on his greatest oratorio. Handel was not always so well treated...
...Died. Romain Rolland, 78, impassioned French novelist and musician, 1915 Nobel Prizewinner for his great ten-volume, semi-autobiographical Jean-Christophe; in Vézelay, France. Long a pacifist, he gave his Nobel Prize money to feed war victims in World War I, retired from France to 24 years "above the battle" in voluntary Swiss exile. Returning to France in 1938, he supported World...
...Into its 935 pages, the editors (Thomas Mann's son, Klaus, and German Novelist Hermann Kesten) have packed scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...
...Romain Rolland, 77-year-old Nobel Prizewinning novelist (Jean-Christophe)* long unheard from, was reported in a German concentration camp. A longtime pacifist, he had returned to France and supported the war after nearly 25 above-the-battle years in Switzerland...