Word: cocteau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles. Ivy Compton-Burnett, Brothers and Sisters. Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, Youth. Hart Crane, The Bridge...
...hobnobbed with dukes and princesses, sat up all night drinking champagne with Cocteau and Picasso ("I knew him before he was Picasso and I was Rubinstein"). He cultivated a taste for fine wines, rich food, rare books, imported cigars, expressionistic paintings. He was the darling of Europe, hopscotching from the Riviera to Vienna to London, charming friends in eight languages...
...novels: heavily lined patrician features, thin lips turned down at the corners, hooded eyes. Traveling the world in search of stories, he napped after lunch wherever he happened to be-aboard a tramp ship plowing the South Seas, in a Burmese hut or an outrigger canoe. Churchill, Wells, Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Kings of Sweden and Siam called on him at Villa Mauresque, his Moorish retreat on the Riviera where, working never more and never less than four hours a morning, he set down most of his books...
...with his foolish, fluttering rescuers. Weakly, vainly, he ordered his own brother, Dr. Robert Proust, from the room. After he died, those malevolent enemies of his life, sunlight and flowers, were admitted at last to his presence, along with a steady tide of mourners. One of these, Jean Cocteau, the poet, noting the neat pile of manuscripts on the mantel, ventured the thought that their composer was "continuing to live, like the ticking watch on the wrist of a dead soldier...
...original. Such Renaissance painters as Veronese and Tintoretto are believed to have had a hand in the designs of fragile cristallo. But it was a stimulating new notion to today's artists. Austrian Expressionist Kokoschka responded first. Three years later Costantini produced his gay Bacchantes. Then Jean Cocteau got interested, traveled to Venice, christened the project "Forge of the Angels," and supplied drawings. Finally, even Picasso capitulated. To Costantini's enormous relief, language proved no barrier. "Speak Italian," ordered Pablo when the Venetian at last got his foot in the door. "Your French is impossible...