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...conflated with the small, the decorative and the pleasurable. It is as though the didactic strategies of conceptual art, its obsession with ordering and naming and listing, had been given play among the stereotypes of joie de vivre fixed a half-century or more ago by Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy. At 44, Bartlett is almost the quintessential example of the New York 1970s artist who made it successfully into the much more worldly atmosphere of the 1980s. She is (rightly) seen as both serious and popular, no easy feat. That a colleague of such fiercely reductive artists as Brice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fluent, Electric, Charming | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Taubes is the first mathematical analyst the University has appointed in recent years, said Graustein Professor of Mathematics Raoul Bott. "No one here has his level of expertise in that area," he added...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Math Dept. Tenures Physicist | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

...DIED. Raoul Salan, 85, taciturn French general who led an aborted April 1961 putsch aimed at preserving French rule in Algeria, then founded and led the terrorist Secret Army Organization, which fought Algerian independence with a campaign of bombings and assassinations, including several attempts on the life of President Charles De Gaulle; in Paris. Famous as France's most decorated soldier, Salan commanded colonial troops in Indochina in 1952 and 1953; he was named French dele gate-general in Algeria when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. De Gaulle proceeded toward independence and ousted Salan, who later went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 16, 1984 | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...their appeal Raoul and Phyllis Bott called on every Dunster student and Senior Common Room member for contributions of show our solidarity, as well as express our gratitude to her and through her, to all members of our dining hall staff...

Author: By John N. Tate, | Title: Dunster House Will Help Employee Robbed of Savings | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

This did not keep grills from opening this fall, however. All nine except Winthrop House's are doing a brisk business, dishing out such House Specialties as the "Bott Dog" in Dunster, in honour of Master Raoul Bott, and the "Wacker Burger," named after South House Master Warren E. Wacker, Winthrop's grill will open November...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: The Grills Next Door | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

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