Word: victor
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...VICTOR HUGO-Matthew Josephson-Doubleday, Doran...
Policy Maker. As his chief attorney, Jimmy Byrnes brought back to a dominant role in Washington a man whose words and ideas had once spelled magic-Benjamin Victor Cohen, the idealistic, philosophical half of the once super-active, super-powerful team of White House favorites, Corcoran & Cohen...
With this book Matthew Josephson fills a gaping hole in U.S. biographical writing (hitherto there has been no good life of Victor Hugo) and adds another superb study to his series of great French literary figures (Zola and His Time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau). In the U.S. the great champions of democracy have always been practical politicians. In France they have usually been literati...
Between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Emile Zola, there were no writers so influential as Victor Hugo. The last half of his life (he lived to be 83) was a long battle of books for the ideals of justice and humanity that have come to be called democratic. In his youth, however, literature was his chief passion. At 28 Hugo started one of the most sensational episodes in French literary history...
...cent of the collectors are men and most likely in uniform now, that jazz never sold very well anyhow, and that a collector of Jazz, unlike a Lombardo-lover or Kaye-swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden are plugging vigorously. Practically...