Word: spender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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European Witness is a ditty bag of impressions collected by Poet Spender on a tour he made through Germany (with a dip into France) for the British Government in 1945, "to inquire into the lives and ideas of German intellectuals, with a particular view to discovering any surviving talent in German literature...
EUROPEAN WITNESS (246 pp.)-Sfephen Spender-Reynal & Hifchcock...
Manhattan was richer, gayer, noisier than it had been since the days of Texas Guinan, the "Black Bottom" and the speakeasy peephole. The big spender was back, nightclubs were jammed and Broadway had never blazed so brightly. But the slim, jaunty little man who had been given star billing at the last big performance was no longer part of the show...
...Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
Said Poet Stephen Spender: "The gap across Europe does not separate victors and vanquished, but the devastated poor countries and those which are still intact and rich. Let's prevent one side living in self-pity and resentment, and the other in self-righteousness and fear of contamination...