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...newly refurbished Cabaret Voltaire, which opened at the end of September, features an archive of notes, documents and testimonials by Ball and other early Dadaists that chronicles the birth and growth of the movement, as well as works of modern followers such as the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. Expectant parents take note: to mark the Dada revival, the Cabaret has launched the Gugusdada contest; it will award $8,300 to the first parents who dare name their newborn "Dada." To be eligible for the prize the baby must be born next February, the month the movement was founded. Cabaret Voltaire...
...first, I doubted my sufficient knowledge of this word in the English lexicon. Perhaps pregnancy also carries with it a lesser-known meaning of “the act of giving birth.” Seeking some sort of resolution to my confusion, I contacted the source: the Harvard Classics Department...
...department merely chuckled and repeatedly pointed out the misuse to his colleagues. Indeed, “pregnant” comes from the Latin “praegnans” meaning “before being born.” It carries no connotation of the actual event of the birth. A fellow Classicist remarked, “Those hormones must be carrying something else if they induce pregnancy...
Present! found its birth at the Manifesto Party last October in Adams House’s Kronauer Space, when the founding members gathered together to write and make proclamations of their personal and artistic ideas. “It was really exciting to hear my friends’ formal writing in an informal setting,” said Coll, one of the group’s major organizers...
Caitlin L. McLoon ’07, a Winthrop representative for REP, said that “half-used” birth control pills were her most interesting find, while Tchou cited Annenberg dishware...