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BETWEEN THE THUNDER AND THE SUN-Vincent Sheean-Random House...
...Vincent Sheean's Personal History (TIME, Feb. 4, 1935) he told how he stood near the Acropolis at Athens one day and held a passionately political conversation with the ghost of a Bolshevik. The Bolshevik was the late Rayna Prohme, U.S. Marxist, with whom Sheean had had a violently platonic love affair during the Chinese revolution and later in Moscow. "But I'm not a revolutionary," Sheean complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born with an obligation to act." Mrs. Prohme's spirit urged...
...History begins) and 1942 (when Between the Thunder and the Sun ends) there occurred the aftermath of Bolshevik revolution, the Italian Fascist revolution, the Chinese revolution, the Nazi revolution, the New Deal, the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of World War II. At some time or other Vincent Sheean managed to look in at all of them. He has a unifying sense, derived from his Marxist studies, that all these historic spasms were related forms of a common convulsion, a worldwide social revolution. He writes with vividness and candor of his own life amidst this convulsion...
...Nitwits. Some of the most ominous pages of Between the Thunder and the Sun describe the prewar scene at the Château de 1'Horizon, a villa near Antibes on the south coast of France. The chateau belonged to graciously aging U.S. Actress Maxine Elliott, aunt of Sheean's wife, Diana Forbes-Robertson. Like the society of which it is a symbol, the chateau perched precariously on a rock between the railroad tracks and the deep blue...
Brave Winston. Vincent Sheean resisted the seductions of this phony pagany by refusing to undress-though "it probably was indecent of me to remain clothed in the midst of all that nakedness." If there were "too many elaborate strangers," Sheean "became violently ill and had to spend the greater part of [his] visit in bed, vomiting profusely from morning to night." He believes that "Maxine understood that it was some kind of unconscious protest...