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...martyr. "I owed this service to the nation," he said in a recent column, and added, with strained modesty: "I should like to ask all of you who concern yourselves about us: Do not worry. No one of us is a Captain Dreyfus and no one, unfortunately, an Emile Zola...
...wells went on writing his pale, successful novels and his unsuccessful plays (although George Bernard Shaw saw promise in them), urged people to read Zola and Tolstoy, Frank Norris and Stephen Crane, and wrote an appreciation of Mark Twain that is a good deal better than the piece Twain wrote about him. At the end, when the bright young men he had encouraged had gone far beyond him. he endured patiently the cutting down of his statues. But his eclipse was only temporary. Eventually he came to be acknowledged a great man of letters, if not a great author...
...voice became more vibrant as she gradually worked her way up to the present, resting on Zola for a moment, deftly controverting recent critical opinion about the author of Germinal. He was rooted in the cycle of nature and his novels of defeat contain an affirmation of life, invincible and forever, she insisted. Somehow, in the next moment, Wordsworth and Fenimore Cooper had been left far behind, and Miss McCarthy was talking about Marx and Hannah Arendt, the cycle of nature and the encroachment of modern industrial civilization on nature...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Emperor Franz Joseph, Czar Nicholas II, Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, Alexandre Eiffel, Wilbur Wright, Leo Tolstoy, Mrs. Dreyfus and Emile Zola are all on view in "The Turn of the Century." Repeat...
...rest of France was not so enthusiastic. He was rejected as a candidate to do a monument to Novelist Emile Zola. Aix-en-Provence commissioned a monument to his beloved Cézanne, then refused to accept the finished statue, a reclining nude. Even when Maillol found a sympathetic patron, Count Harry Kessler, art adviser to the German Kaiser, it turned out badly. World War I broke out, and the French angrily concluded that Maillol was pro-German, dismissed his beautiful nudes as so many plump Fräulein...