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...epochs. Written with Sartre's characteristic energy and the faint overtones of sounder sense that he has acquired since World War II and the French resistance, it places his own writing in the same class with the work of André Malraux and Antoine de St. Exupéry-Frenchmen of action, compelled to do their work in a time of disintegrating values when any act had to be its own justification. Thus he seems to write an apologia for such books as Nausea as having been conditioned by a certain time and place...
Recently, worried about an article on sex delinquency, he submitted it to the 24 papers in advance. They vetoed the treatment; Nichols had it rewritten. Says he: "I'm not a writer, not a lit'ry fellow. I like to show a profit...
...Pursuit of Bread. It was another part of the pattern of his life that he seldom had trouble getting jobs, seldom kept them very long. Between 1895 and 1897 he built up Ev'ry Month, which his brother Paul's publishers backed, to a circulation of 65,000, and he was an enterprising, ambitious editor of Delineator from 1907 to 1910, when an office scandal forced him out. In 1932, he helped Ernest Boyd, George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill to launch the short-lived American Spectator (which the "tired" editors closed down...
Seizing the Grimaces. His work does not sing, says Valéry flatly. "Grace and obvious poetry were not his objective." In his drawings, he seemed almost wholly concerned with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable...
...That," Valéry adds, "is real pride, antidote to all vanity...