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...prizes, awarded by a conservative, three-man jury, went to expressionists, i.e., people who paint what they feel instead of what they see. Philip Evergood, 47, took second prize with a vaguely political parody of a mythological theme: Leda in High Places. Leda and the swan (which Evergood intended to represent "nature" and "man's ideals") were elegantly drawn and painted to shine like new snow, but the picture fell apart at the top and degenerated into cartooning at the bottom. Leda's just-hatched twins were cast as symbols of race-hatred. The prize they fought...
David Bauman '50, who appeared with the HTW last year and worked with the Cambridge Summer Playhouse, will move over to the HDC in the part of Mercury. Queen Leda will be portrayed by Barbara Thompson of Boston's Tributary Theater...
Dali was readying for publication a handbook to be called 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. Meanwhile he gave the unfinished Leda a surrealist boost in the Dali News-a newspaper by and about himself, which he published for his exhibition. Wrote Dali...
...Dali shows us the hierarchized libidinous emotion, suspended and as though hanging in midair, in accordance with the modern 'nothing touches' theory of intra-atomic physics. Leda does not touch the swan; Leda does not touch the pedestal; the pedestal does not touch the base; the base does not touch the sea; the sea does not touch the shore...
That sounded like the old Dali, the spellbinder whose ice-cold art-like his Leda-could sometimes shock and sometimes fascinate, but almost never touch...