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...Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, who is retiring this year, taught Phil 1 for more than 30 years. According to him it has been offered uninterruptedly for at least 75 years...
Cylinder & Sphere. Last fall the Louvre, anticipating Braque's anniversary a bit, gave him the only show that venerable museum ever put on for a living artist. It was the more appropriate because, early in the century, Braque studied paintings at the Louvre, copying such old masters as Raphael. He then painted for a while in the boldly colorful style of the Fauves (the wild beasts). But the man who made the deepest impression on him in his youth was Cézanne, who had given the younger generation a new slogan: "Treat nature in terms of the cylinder...
...Raphael Demos, Alford, Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity will end a long and distinguished career at the University this morning...
...huge, hard-drinking Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland. Michael Welensky cut off his trigger finger to avoid conscription by the Czar's army, sought his fortune as a fur trader in the U.S. before settling in Salisbury after the diamond rush. Son Roy (his real first name is Raphael) quit school at 14; after a series of odd jobs ranging from baker to bartender, he became a railroad fireman...
...discovered that he was born in Algeria; then the company suddenly discovered that the job was already filled. A skilled accountant, who left Algiers after four of his family died in terror attacks, has been unemployed for ten months except for odd jobs at 45? an hour. Raphael Coudray, 37, a French army veteran who served as a volunteer in Korea, was wounded by a grenade in a terrorist attack in Algiers. In France he has been lucky enough to get a job collecting tickets in a cinema owned by another Algerian white. He says matter-of-factly: "Of course...