Word: dau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pies had been going to law school while painting in emulation of Miró; he gave up school to help found a group called Dau al Set to experiment in the arts. More technicians than theoreticians, the group hoped to grapple with matter, not imagery, and Tàpies still feels the need, as he says, to "throw in sand, stone, dust-something that would give me the immediateness of a crumbling wall, the feel of its crevices and its worn surfaces...
Technical Death. The man in Moscow Hospital No. 50 that day last January was Lev Davidovich Landau, 54, one of the world's greatest physicists. "Dau" was no ordinary patient, and he got no ordinary care. His friends unabashedly called for help from the free world. Canada's famed retired Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield flew from Montreal at a few hours' notice. The Moscow doctors had already opened Landau's skull, but could not be sure whether the major threat to his brain was a large blood mass or a multiplicity of hemorrhages. Should they operate further...