Word: dada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma of Dada." Her parting shot, on leaving the U.S. in 1935 (with her longtime secretary-companion, Alice B. Toklas): "I won't be sorry to come back when I do come back if I do come back." In France many a G.I. got to know Gertrude Stein, stirred anew her interest...
That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...
Drop everything, drop Dada, drop your wife, your mistress. Drop your hopes and your fears. Sow your children in a corner of the woods. Drop your prey for the shadow...
Metropolitan newspapermen had a field day Tuesday at the slight expense of the Liberal. Union and an impromptu Dada demonstration. Practically overy dispatch labelled the dadaist's parade as "conservative" or "opposition," evidently mistaking them for members of the Conservative League, whose threatened counter march failed to materialize...
Eager anthropologists have snatched some from the flames and last week a few of them were on display in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. For its big midwinter show, the Museum-which often baffles outlanders by its cultist concern with the ultramodern descendants of Dada-put on an excellent exhibition which may baffle them more: 400 strange South Sea objects ranging from hand-painted skulls and intricately carved canoes to an immense stone head...