Word: dadaist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amused by his account of Dada, most extreme of modern French literary cults, whose founder, Tristan Tzara, appeared at a public meeting and "read aloud a newspaper article, while an electric bell kept ringing so that nobody could hear what he said." A later meeting was delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw at us not onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks as well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor...