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...with the almost unpronounceable name was back. Henri Queuille, the mousy little onetime doctor who, as Premier for 13 months (1948-49), had made a name for himself as a mollifier of warring factions, was again the head of a French government...
...shall the church adapt its leadership to the changing society? One faction, led by Laval University's dean of social sciences, the Very Rev. Georges-Henri ("Jolly Monk") Lévesque, argues for a militant championship of the working class; this faction has promoted cooperatives and Catholic trade unions. An opposing group, supported by Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, believes that the rural parish society must be strengthened and that the church must stay aloof from class antagonisms, though it should fight for social justice...
Wide & Windy. The next generation of reportorial artists, concentrating on city life and emphasizing its seamy side, never approached the consistent quality of their four great predecessors. But they had long outlived their early scornful nickname: the "ashcan school." Now the work of such men as Henri, Luks, Glackens and Bellows looks far more lively than grim. And the school produced a couple of the show's near masterpieces: Bellows' wide and windy Up the Hudson and Glackens' sparkling Green...
LUCIEN LEUWEN (BOOK ONE: THE GREEN HUNTSMAN) (388 pp.) - Henri Beyle [Stendhal]-Translated by Louise Varése-New Directions...
...Henri Beyle, who used the nom de plume of Stendhal, wrote Lucien Leuwen between 1834 and 1836, while he was French consul (for the regime of King Louis Philippe) at Civitavecchia, Italy. Since the novel is, in parts, a Louis-Philippie and a mock of constitutional monarchy ("a halt in the mud"), it could not safely be published while the author was "eating off the Budget." Stendhal therefore was in no hurry to get on with it, and died before he finished the job. First published as a whole in 1894, five decades after Stendhal's death. Lucien...