Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical a department of rural France as you could hope to find. Tucked away between Lyon and the Swiss frontier, it borrows from the north and west the lush red earth of Burgundy and the Saone valley; from the east some of the grandeur and sharp winds of the Alps; from the south some of the smiling sunniness of Provence...
...servant of the Nazis. Because he is old and they are proud of him, the Germans have dropped all denazification proceedings against him. His works are frequently played in Germany now, and his past errors generally forgiven. Since the war, he has lived in privacy in small Swiss resorts, occasionally working at music. His only income, about $1,000 a year, has come from royalties on Swiss and Swedish performances of his works...
Editor Cyril Connolly's Horizon is wide and highbrow. In his little (circ. 9,500) London magazine, he likes to wield a brush on big intellectual canvases. Six years ago Editor Connolly put out an all-Irish number, a year ago an all-Swiss edition. In the October issue of Horizon, Connolly paid his respects...
When the Mountain Fell is largely a triumph of perfected style. Its legend-like tone and natural, village-talk dialogue give it a quality of universality, keep it, in spite of place names and details of locale, from becoming merely a Swiss regional tale. It poses no "problems" except basic human ones which turn on love, fear, faith, generosity and loyalty. U.S. readers will get here what few other recent books have given them-a genuine literary experience...
...with peasants, small craftsmen and woodchoppers. As a result, the French critics who had ignored him as a Left-Banker in Paris began to praise him extravagantly, tried without success to get Ramuz admitted to the French Academy's "Immortals." When Ramuz died last spring at 69, the Swiss Government declared a national day of mourning...