Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Going Nowhere. Dada got its start in Zurich, Switzerland during World War I with a group of rebellious young artists who thought the world was going nowhere. They were tired of war, booms and depressions, had no faith in religion and despised the self-conscious modern art of the cubists and futurists. As a protest, they made up their minds to be as disorderly as possible, and defiantly named their movement by simply plunging a knife into a French dictionary. The knife point came to rest at a wildly appropriate word: "Dada," the French word for hobbyhorse...
...with a remarkable number of Annex students in his English 160 course, Robert Chapman, commented, "Why are Radcliffe girls always so conscious of the opinions of others...
Farrar's faith in the power of good typography makes many a prose-conscious newsman wince. Says Typographer Farrar: "A poor paper with a good package has a better chance than a good paper with a bad package . . . A good-looking paper inspires better writing. It inspires pride of ownership. It inspires the circulation and ad people to go out and sell...
...week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported the death of a famed Spanish baritone, he would not print an ad for the singer's latest Buenos Aires concert. Barely conscious since a cerebral hemorrhage in 1943, Don Ezequiel was never told of La Prensa's seizure by Dictator Juan Peron in 1951, died without even a one-line obituary in his old paper...
...fans outside Hollywood's RKO Pantages Theater, the show looked familiar: klieg lights crisscrossing the wet night sky and Cadillacs disgorging jeweled and ermined cargoes. But inside the palace, surrounded by TV cameras, zoomar lenses, floodlights and monitoring screens, the 2,800 top-drawer movie folk were acutely conscious that times had changed...