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It is assumed that when he died in 1972 he was a virgin.

Cornell was not a complete re- cluse.

He corresponded widely and forged a successful career in the New York avant-garde art world.

Only a year after producing his first collages in 1931, he was included in a historic exhibition called "Surré alism" at the legendary Julien Levy Gallery .

He went on to exhibit at the Egan Gallery, which also showed art by Willem de Kooning , Mark Rothko , and other Abstract Expressionists, and later, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg .

He lived to see his works included in "New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970," the landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that Henry Geldzahler curated.Nevertheless, the feeling one gets with Cornell is that being boxed in - whether by familial circumstances or by neurotic shyness - is what led to the cultivation of an extraordinarily lively and adventurous inner life.

He didn't think outside the box; rather, he thought deeper into the box by transforming its interior into a space of infinitely elastic possibility.

Every box sculpture he made represents the triumph of a wide-ranging imaginative vision over the deadening captivity of external, terrestrial existence.Hartigan's organization of ...

According to the American Bar Association, accredited law schools nationwide experienced an average 3.4 percent decrease in applications for admission last year.

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- Sahra Susman, (909) 483-9356 Astronomers club hosts speaker CLAREMONT - Don Nicholson, chairman of the board of trustees of the Mount Wilson Observatory Association, will speak Friday night at the monthly meeting of Pomona Valley Amateur Astronomers.

The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m.

at Beckman Hall at Harvey Mudd College.

Nicholson, a graduate of Pomona College, heads the support group for the observatory as well as the institute that manages it for the Carnegie Institution in Washington.

His presentation will be "The Moun...