Word: stendhals
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...Stendhal was, as always, Stendhalian: "The greatest happiness love can offer is the first pressure of the hand by the woman one loves...
...Duchess of Sanseverina, the real heroine of Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma, understood all such things when she considered the prospects of her lover and sighed, "J'ai vu tomber tant de choses que j'avais crues eternelles." (I have seen the fall of so many things that I had thought eternal.) The man with the golden helmet understood that too, no matter who painted...
...sure she isn't the woman Stendhal," wrote Edmund Wilson back in 1941, when his young wife began her first book. Some 40 years, 20 volumes and two husbands later, the evidence is in. Mary McCarthy, 72, has her own wise and distinctive voice, but the cool, analytical approach to art, sex and politics inescapably suggests the 19th century Frenchman...
...Occasional Prose, fugitive pieces range from reportage to literary criticism to the comparative values of wood ash, manure and seaweed in the garden. All of the works are reminiscent of, in Stendhal's memorable phrase, "a mirror walking along a main road." McCarthy's reflections begin with a recollection of her colleague Philip Rahv, longtime editor of Partisan Review. Thousands of words have been spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with...
...DANGEROUS color to mess around with. Blood, Chinese weddings, Commies, embarrassment, the cause of Harvard Square's redestruction, one half of Stendhal's best book, one third of the American flag, and one quarter of Ronald Reagan's hair dye are some of the highly charged subjects associated with this band in the electromagnetic spectrum...