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“... and he founded the Sociedade de Etnografia e Folclore, which funded much of Dina Dreyfus and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s early research. The self he had inhabited in 1927 embarrassed him, but the diary is both charming and exacting precisely because it is a record of his inhibitions and reticence, his lack of the multitudinous capacity he desired:Departure ...”

“... in Vietnam and Algeria, and wrote articles for a dissident Communist paper under the pen name Claude Arrieux. Among Guattari’s enthusiasms, Freud ran a close second to Marx. He attended Lacan’s seminars at Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital and went into analysis with him. In 1955 he began working at the La Borde clinic in the Loire Valley as a ...”

“... not have been a mine; it would have exploded. It was the cable for the German field telephone. Claude grasped it in both hands and felt its wrinkled casing.He cuts the cable and returns to his unit, aware that he needs approbation even more than a quiet life. As he subsequently explains, back in Paris, basking in his girlfriend’s admiration: ‘Oh, my ...”

“... front and white at the back so that they look as much like blossom as leaves. It reminds me of a Claude Rogers painting I once tried to buy and now here it is outside the back door.15 May. After supper we go down to look at the Titian exhibition, now in its last few days at the National Gallery. It’s 10.15 and the doors have only just closed so that the ...”

“... into the wild, excursions in pursuit of the picturesque had become ever more popular. So had Claude glasses, a vital prop for framing a landscape. Stamp is clear that ‘neither the Picturesque tradition nor the romantic, nostalgic impulse in British architecture could easily be eradicated.’ Clough Williams-Ellis’s Portmeirion, which somehow escaped ...”

“... bears a curious resemblance to her French contemporary, the lesbian artist and photographer Claude Cahun, maker of surreal self-portraits in which she too experimented with dramatising a kind of uncanny ultra-femininity.) Garland would no doubt be called a ‘femme’ in today’s gay parlance, if not a femme with a vengeance. Her almost eerie ...”