Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali, looking pretty surrealistic himself, was persuaded to exhibit his newly elongated waxed mustache. To nobody's surprise, Dali explained that his latest creation served a real function: "It is like an aerial, stretching out to capture genius and inspiration, pointing to heaven like the spires of a cathedral...
...prevent such exercises as shall be performed under the direction of the President and Tutors." Following this there is in the Faculty Records for the '60's a notation that "This day was the Public examination and the Overseers being present, Oliver and Antington were allowed to exhibit a scene in Terence before the Committee, they desiring it, but in Private, in the library none being present but the Committee, the President and Tutors...
Everything was ready for the opening of Spain's "First International Open-Air Exhibit of Sculpture" in Madrid's Retire Park. The organizers of the show, led by Art Critic Sefiora Juana de Mordo, had invited and received entries from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Sweden. But as diplomats and officials gathered in striped pants and top hats for the formal inauguration, they noted a strange sight: all the nude statues had been primly covered with white sheets...
Senora de Mordo, enraged to tears, screamed at the students: "You savages! Savages! You are a disgrace!" Replied a teen-age seminarian:'You are the savage, and we are merely evangelizing you." A few days later, the exhibit was closed by government order;" the works of art were recrated and shipped back to where they came from. Last week, the show's organizers sadly announced that there would be no "Second International Open-Air Exhibit of Sculpture" next year...
...group's other plans include a written report on the need for a theatre, a report on undergraduate dramatic activity here during the last few years, and some sort of exhibit and performance at Commencement...