Word: rousseau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded...
...Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms, nor is it entirely subjective; it offers some translation of the former, and simultaneously treats the emotions...
...recent example of the Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered unfit for U. S. consumption. Other famed books barred from U. S. ports include unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights, various of the works of Aristophanes, Balzac, Rousseau, Havelock Ellis. Ridiculous, said Senator Cutting, was a situation in which "two-by-four clerks" could decide what the U. S. public might read. Allied with Senator Cutting were Senators Borah, Wheeler, Tydings, Norris, La Follette...
Harvard University is itself directly affected by the censorship of books now being so actively discussed. J. S. Phillips, proprietor of the well-known bookstore on Harvard Square, recently made a special trip to New York, that he might secure admission into the United States of copies of Rousseau's "Confessions," and of the complete works of Rabelais, both of which are used in French courses given by the University. For the time being, the situation is very bad, as all books are tied up at the customs office pending developments...
...status of affairs is clearly shown when it is explained that the condemnation of just one judge is sufficient to put any book on the banned list, which now contains 759 items. A government customs official, after looking through Rousseau's "Confessions," admitted that he saw nothing bad in them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio...