Eternel Printemps, premier état, taille originale-variante type C, 1884-94. Bronze with dark brown patina. Sold for $2,770,500 on 4 May 2011 at Christie’s in New York
Claudel, however, met a tragic fate. They parted ways because of Rodin’s refusal to leave his long-time partner, Rose Beuret, and Claudel descended into madness. In 1913 she was committed to an asylum, where she remained until her death in 1943.
‘It is terrible to be so abandoned,’ she wrote in 1915. ‘I can’t help but succumb to the grief that overwhelms me.’ After her death, Claudel and her work slipped into relative obscurity, only emerging from her lover’s shadow in the late 20th century.
Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s official charged with managing the state’s voting system, has become the one person truly willing to burst Donald Trump’s bubble. Not only has he proclaimed the election in his state free and fair, he has called on Trump and his enablers to stop trying to undo the election in the strongest and most direct language yet.
“This is elections. This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this. It’s too much.”
With such forceful words, Sterling joins a long line of lone and at first lonely voices who took a risk to step out and speak up against the powerful. If enough people listen and are emboldened to follow, then he, like many resisters over the decades, may help to create a turning point in history.
Part biography, part history all informative
Jan 8, 2021 |
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson (c.2020, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) $27.95 336 pages.
Pick, pick, pick.
If you’re patient, that’s how you break big things into very little things. One pebble taken from here, another small stone removed from there and over time, you undermine the structure. It’s the same for dams, walls, foundations, people and, in the new book
Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson, it’s the same for wartime operations.
Twenty-six-year-old Lucy Schwob and her lover, 28-year-old Suzanne Malherbe, had never lived apart from their families in Nantes, France. But one day in 1920, they were on their way to their new lives together in Paris. It hadn’t been long since the end of World War I, and life seemed exciting and fresh.
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Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s official charged with managing the state’s voting system, has become the one person truly willing to burst Donald Trump’s bubble. Not only has he proclaimed the election in his state free and fair, he has called on Trump and his enablers to stop trying to undo the election in the strongest and most direct language yet.
“This is elections. This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who have not said a damn word are complicit in this. It’s too much.”
With such forceful words, Sterling joins a long line of lone and at first lonely voices who took a risk to step out and speak up against the powerful. If enough people listen and are emboldened to follow, then he, like many resisters over the decades, may help to create a turning point in history.