Word: stendhal
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...force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...
...recent play combines so much polish with so much weight, or expresses its insights with so much of the gaiety which Stendhal demanded of healthy art. But what is most important is that The Cocktail Party is a kind of triumph of spoken drama. Its author is a master of both language and verse, and his play asks only for performance; it does not require a production full of gauze curtains, revolving stages, trick lighting and various sound effects...
...money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only too clearly that he is incapable of enjoying the beautiful things he has gathered around...
This Life) will suffer no disgrace by comparison with Chekhov or Stendhal for a hurting sense of human relationships...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Speakers: Eugene O'Neill Jr., Rutgers Philosophy Professor Houston Peterson; Author John Erskine...