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...Ernst lives in Arizona with fellow surrealist Dorothea Tanning-his fourth wife-looking at the desert to get ideas for painting the sea. Like Lewis Carroll's Father William, Ernst has a limited stock of answers for those who question his strange ways. He feels sure he could never abandon his witch-doctor's approach to painting even if he wanted to. "One always meets one's self again," he says. "Evolution in art does not go straight; it goes in circles. I have seen this in my own work...
...prints and does considerable framing work. Their exhibition this month is the series of paintings of the "Temptation of Saint Anthony," which Mayor Curley recently condemned as offensive to religious persons. The show contains some interesting interpretations by such painters as Abraham Rattner, Salvador Dali, Ivan Albright, and Dorothea Tanning; but only Max Ernst's prize-winning canvas captures the terror brought to the theme by the Gothic Masters...
...Dorothea Natwick in 1923 plays tennis and flirts with a young libertine, falls in love with a stalwart Progressive from Idaho, and decides to marry the scholarly son of a proud Boston family. The Natwicks, far advanced in airy snobbery, give their clever daughter away at a barn party. Seventeen years later Dorothea's beauty is at its height; she presides over half the gracious living in Cambridge and, at its heart, entertains The Little Group of faculty intellectuals...
...card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea in 1940 by coming to life and joining the British Navy...
...wits of The Little Group would prefer to skim or skip. When it comes, some of them foam with the "war hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than one, but plenty of women felt that...