Word: rousseau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series with Les Loisirs ("Leisure"-see cut), which was one of the hits of his Paris show. As stiffly posed as a daguerreotype, the painting echoed Léger's early days as a retoucher as well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like that of a glistening machine designed and put together by a master engineer...
Consequently, his course in Russian Revolutionary Thought is given in the afternoon. He says the course has been handicapped by the absence of English translations of important writings by nineteenth century revolutionists. "It's as if you tried to understand French Revolution knowing Diderot was in favor of science, Rousseau rather enthusiastic, Voltaire disliked Church--but all in Chinese, so can't bother with them...
...times a doctor honoris causa (Argentina has six universities). Arriving by special train with wife Evita, Peró led a motor caravan to the auditorium, through thousands of cheering descamisados. There, in a 70-minute speech, he managed to touch on Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Spinoza. As for himself, he said he was between Hegel and Marx-against both "immoral individualism" and the "insectification of the individual," in favor of what he called "justicialism...
...newly opened schools. In turn he enrolled in a police school, a soapmaking school, a law school, a commercial school, an economics school. He finally wound up in the Hunan Normal School where he hoped to be trained as a teacher. He read translations of Adam Smith, Darwin, Rousseau, Spencer. Says Mao: "I was then an idealist...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Discussion of Rousseau's Essay on Inequality...