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Newspapers noted the perfect symmetry--busing had begun with the Supreme Court's 1971 Swann vs.
Her real name was Maria Boursin, and she was 24, though Bonnard didn't find out these details until, like Proust's Swann, he married her.
In Swann's Way , Marcel Proust compared the little phrase of the composer Vinteuil, the "national anthem" of Swann's love for Odette, to one of "those interiors by Pieter de Hooch which are deepened by the narrow frame of a half-opened door, in the far distance, of a different color, velvety with the radiance of some intervening light."
"Velvety radiance" actually sounds more like Jan Vermeer (Swann's obsession) than de Hooch, and the precise relationship between the two painters still elude scholars.
The landmark Swann suit had its origins in the 1955 Supreme Court decision known as Brown II . Brown II gummed up the initial 1954 Brown ruling--which had decreed segregated schools unconstitutional--by saying, in a now-infamous oxymoron, that desegregation should proceed "with all deliberate speed."