Word: aragon
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...wonder what victims were in the ruins. They wondered first about trapped U. S. citizens, trapped British subjects, French politicians, generals, diplomats, finally got around to wondering about French writers. In particular, they wondered what had become of Aviator-Novelists Andre Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Surrealist Novelist Louis Aragon, Dadaist Cut-up Jean Cocteau. Thanks to the human dislocation, the censorship, the splitting of France into occupied and unoccupied areas, it was almost impossible to find...
...Louis Aragon (Bells of Basel), like Andre Malraux, served in a tank division. His corps was cut off in, Flanders, surrounded. From the beach at Dunkirk, Aragon escaped to England. Two days later he somehow made his way back to France, to the troops still fighting on the Seine and the Loire. Day before the armistice, the Nazis captured him, put him in a prison camp. Like Malraux, he escaped (with 30 others). His hair turned white. Now living at the village of Varetz, south of Limoges, in unoccupied France, Aragon is writing poetry, a novel (non-political). Aragon wrote...
...through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly wiped out the boxed-in Moors. Late in the action he got a bullet in his knee, next day got typhoid. He recovered, fought again and was wounded again, on the Aragon front...
...Spanish Club program tonight, to be broadcast internationally by the Boston shortwave station WRUL, will include musical selections; greetings by Jose A. Godoy, Director of Inter-American programs for WRUL; a welcome by Thomas G. Allen 4G., president of the Club; and an address by Professor Gustave A. de Aragon, of Boston University...
Born in Lorraine, Marianne Colin took her stage name from a stage character she much admired, unhappy Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts. For her, not only Cocteau but Andre Gide, Louis Aragon, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Yvain have written songs...