Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forlornly misses each year's Derby. One is a blind Scottish boy who tries to break off with his girl. One is an ex-burglar who learns so much decency that he sacrifices repatriation for the sake of a fellow prisoner. One is a Welshman whose aging wife dies bearing their first child. A corporal, his close friend, embodies most of the sterling virtues of England's Common...
...film's star (Michael Redgrave) is something more special: a Czech who has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp, and is hiding under the identity of a dead English officer, whose wife (Rachel Kempson) he falls in love with by correspondence. The picture patiently tells the story of all these men-and a few others-from the time of their capture by the Germans in June 1940 to the hour of their release...
Whether they were cream or evaporated milk, Author Putnam is the first ex-expatriate to bottle them all together. Putnam is no more successful than most other Parisophiles in explaining just what it was that made his wife burst into tears on her first glimpse of the Tuileries, or that mists the eyes of those who merely recall the image of a Parisian pissoir. But he does show the variety of attractions that Paris offered to youthful intellectuals in the years following World...
...himself down at a conspicuous table in one of the cafés, every expatriate eye turned icily away. "Little" magazines such as transition, Broom, Secession, and Gargoyle occupied a position of huge magnitude in the expatriate eye. Putnam tells the dismal tale of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie's wife, whom Putnam found one day close to tears. "Line and I," she explained sadly, "are separating. . . . He's made transition [and he] says I'm not his intellectual equal any more...
...showpiece of France's Communist Party. Written while Aragon kept one jump ahead of the Germans as a prolific pamphleteer of the Resistance, this novel steers clear of both Communism and World War II. Aurélien is the typical, almost standard, Gallic love story in which a wife knows how to stay out of the way when her husband's mistress turns up. Aragon seems as slickly at home in this tradition as he is in the job he took over last month: the editorship of the Paris Communist daily Ce Soir. Says Lover Aurélien...