Word: dubreuilh
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...think I recognize the source of Jago's wrongheadedness of this matter. It originates from a very poor reading--if he has actually read it, and is not merely regurgitating received ideas--of the novel Les Mandarins. In this novel, there is a dispute between two characters: Henri and Dubreuilh. It is in this novel, and within it alone, that the dispute between the characters centered on the question whether or not to publish a report on Stalin's labor camps. In viewing this novel as a roman a clef, there has been a temptation in certain quarters to identify...
Skin cancer from exposure of the face, neck and hands to sun and wind was first described by Germany's Paul G. Unna in 1894 as Seemanns-haut. A dozen years later, William Dubreuilh made an observational refinement in the Bordeaux vineyards : women got skin cancer on the parts of their faces left exposed by their scarves, while men got it on the back of the neck. In the U.S., 91% of skin cancer is on the hands, face and neck, 2% is on "occasionally exposed" sites, and 6.5% on sites never ordinarily exposed...
...characters writers and intellectuals who live to talk and make love as though they were being put through their paces by an observant Kinsey. They also say just what Author de Beauvoir wants them to say and so have no fictional life of their own. The heroine, Anne Dubreuilh, is a Simone-like woman of 39, a psychiatrist married to a much older, Sartre-like writer. Their love life has long since ceased, but Anne tries a fling with an anti-Communist friend and finds it depressing. Robert, her husband, tells her not to worry about it. Their daughter hops...
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