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...latest, Each Man's Son, is set in his native Cape Breton Island, which lies off the Nova Scotia mainland like a rugged facsimile of Scotland. It is the story of Daniel Ainslie, the best doctor in town, who discovers in middle age that he is a desperately unhappy man despite work, respect and a good wife. What ails the doctor is simple enough: he wants children, and now it is too late. But since he and his wife have long ago stopped talking about their childlessness, the doctor doesn't recognize his own symptoms. When he steps...
...Russian army in the world, short of some catastrophe I couldn't possibly foresee, that could destroy them before we could do something about it ... evacuate them or go back to a place where they were safe. For example, you could put a dozen American divisions in the Breton peninsula [in France], where they can be covered by our own sea and air power, and the Russians couldn't touch them to save their souls...
Burgeoning with a Breast. Dominguez graduated from the student-artist class the day he met Surrealist Andre Breton in 1935. Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...
Private Life: Prefers his modest apartment in Paris' Auteuil quarter, but spends most of his long working days at his official residence, the Hotel Matignon. He and his wife Anne have two married daughters, six granddaughters. His favorite relaxation: walking on the Breton seashore...
...Breton fisherman, Pierre Tal-Coat has been a long time getting-out from under the older generation's thumb. Beginning his career in his teens, he taught himself by studying the styles of the artists he admired most. As he wandered from Brittany to Paris to Provence and back again, he worked his way through the rough-stroked techniques of the expressionists to the slick, brashly colored abstractions of Picasso...