Word: breton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVE been inundated by biographies and memoirs; Hemingway's Moveable Feast. the interminable studies of Joyce's Paris years, the histories of manic Surealists like Breton or Michel Leiris. If the Diaries belong to this tradition, still their achievement is in something more: the unearthing of a sensibility diminished by the wracking crises of the years between 1939 and 1944, and yet able to go on. Anais Nin's shared preoccupations with psychoanalysis pervade the entries in this volume; Otto Rank appears in the beginning pages as the mysterious influence he was in Nin's life, but by this time...
...Besret, a tall, Rome-trained doctor of theology, encouraged his monks to mix with people in the bistros and shops of neighboring villages. At monastery masses, the traditional Host was replaced with crusty Breton bread passed around in baskets. "We have no right to do something simply because it is written in a book," Dom Besret explained. "It must be true to life. Otherwise, it's only theater...
...young maverick made the most of the opportunity. He let his playful brush and imagination run rampant over walls, doors and ceilings. By the time Ernst was finished, he had transformed the small stone villa into a uniquely hallucinatory backdrop, hi these surroundings, the founders of Surrealism-Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Andre Masson, Michel Leiris, Robert Desnos and, of course, the Eluards-met and dreamed aloud the bizarre fantasies that would reshape much 20th century...
...largest agricultural exposition. Some 1,200 exhibitors from 21 nations displayed their wares at the pennant-draped fairgrounds, and they included large industrial concerns as well as producers of fertilizer and farm machinery. Among the fair visitors was U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, who also toured a Breton farm and then dropped by the local Franco-American institute to open an exhibition of works by five American painters (Lester Johnson, Harry Nadler, Robert Natkin, Frank Roth, William Wiley). Looking over the abstract canvases, Shriver cracked: "Every year brings artistic upheavals?and sometimes other kinds of upheavals too." If farms...
...French Revolution, when the nation was chopped into nearly 100 illogically ar ranged departments with the firm intention of making every local decision dependent upon Parisian whims. That situation still exists today: "Not a statue can be erected, not a centime spent, without Paris becoming involved," moans a Breton official...