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...DIED. Raoul Walsh, 93, prolific movie director who won acclaim for such silent film classics as What Price Glory? and Sadie Thompson before mastering the high-adventure thriller (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) that helped establish the tough-guy images of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and George Raft; of a heart attack; in Simi Valley, Calif...
...choice of successor will be entirely up to Peter Fleischmann, 58, board chairman and son of the founding owner, Raoul Fleischmann. Nobody is trying to drive Shawn away, yet there is uneasy anticipation among the staff of a transition that will have to come. After 28 years of Shawn's dominance, a new editor will undoubtedly favor different writers, show less interest in some of Shawn's pet subjects, introduce other tastes. Might he even decide that the general reader can be taken into account, just a teeny bit, without jeopardizing the integrity of the writer? Might...
...founders of the movement, who came together in Zurich in 1915, were dodging the draft in their home countries. But the Dadaists objected to more than just the cruelty of war--they protested anything that infringed upon the dignity and freedom of the individual. Industrialism came under fire: Raoul Hausmann wrote in 1920 of the paralysis of the spirit "in a world which continues to function like a machine...
...recourse to a wide range of materials was another aspect that, while not unique to Dada, influenced many later artists. Hannah Hoch, Raoul Hausmann and others made striking collages in which they jumbled and juxtaposed photographs from newspapers to create disturbing images of dissembled bodies in confused scales. Robert Rauschenberg's collages of the 1960s owe much to the Dada legacy. Duchamp's adoption of ordinary objects in sculpture is analogous to the selection of unadulterated common building materials in post-modern architecture. Frank Gehry's new house in California uses unfinished two-by-fours, asphalt and chain-link fencing...
...straight-forward, honest and active person and I am delighted that I finally persuaded him to take the position," Raoul Bott, Graustein Professor of Mathematics and Master of Dunster House, said yesterday...