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...practitioners. In 1924 Tristan Tzara, founder of the movement, wrote: "Another characteristic of Dada is the continuous breaking off of our friends....Everybody knows that Dada is nothing. I broke away from Dada and from myself as soon as I understood the implications of nothing." In 1920 Richard Huelsenbeck pinpointed the non-directional nature of Dada that precluded constructive action: "the Dadaists spoke of energy and will and assured the world that they had amazing plans. But concerning the nature of these plans, no information whatever was forthcoming...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Dadadadadadadadadadadadadada | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...others are deliberately cryptic. Sound poems such as Schwitters' "Primal Sonata," composed of nonsensical strings of syllables, attempted to transcend conventional language and reach listeners on a more basic level. The word "dada" itself had no specific meaning when first adopted in 1915; it acquired associations only over time. Huelsenbeck called Dada "a word, which only later was to be filled with a concept...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Dadadadadadadadadadadadadada | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...dada on the 8th of February, 1916, at 6 o'clock in the evening ... in the Terrace Cafe in Zurich. I was there with my twelve children when Tzara pronounced for the first time this word, which aroused a legitimate enthusiasm in all of us." (Later Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck claimed: ". . . it was I who pronounced the word dada [hobbyhorse] for the first time.") In moments of harmony and logic which they affected to despise, dadaists admitted that their object was "to spit in the eye of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Marvelous & Fantastic | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...mile run.--G. L. Nichols, 6 (A); F. A. Parker, 7 (A); G. Goodwin, 15 (B); A. L. Turner, 26 (C); R. F. Shepard, 25 (C); A. Lowenkopf, 27 (C); A. L. Huelsenbeck, 24 (C); I. C. Dresser, 55 (Cor); T. C. McDermott, 49 (Cor); J. H. O'-Leary, 50 (Cor); C. G. Seelbach, 56 (Cor); J. R. Adams, 52 (Cor); S. M. Abrahams, 57 (Cor); I. H. Houston, 58 (Cor); D. M. Robinson, 543 (Cor); L. R. Wells, 53 (Cor); W. J. Dockerill, 48 (Cor); J. B. McClatchy, 59 (Cor); P. L. Davidson, 51 (Cor); C. F. H. Cratherne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE LIST OF ENTRIES FOR INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET | 5/31/1919 | See Source »

...mile run.--G. Goodwin, 15 (B); H. G. Larson, 28 (C); A. L. Turner, 26 (C); A. L. Huelsenbeck, 24 (C); C. Sarlin, 29 (C); A. Schaeffer, 31 (C); P. Ward, 30 (C); J. Knox, 32 (C); I. C. Dresser, 55 (Cor); T. C. McDermott, 49 (Cor); S. M. Abrahams, 57 (Cor); C. G. Seelbach, 56 (Cor); E. J. Hasselbeck, 60 (Cor); J. L. Dickenson, Jr., 61 (Cor); C. H. King, 62 (Cor); G. D. Duryea, 68 (Cor); J. R. Adams, 52 (Cor); E. Goodale, 64 (Cor); G. S. Hiscock, 545 (Cor); H. B. McClatchy, 59 (Cor); H. C. Avery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE LIST OF ENTRIES FOR INTERCOLLEGIATE MEET | 5/31/1919 | See Source »

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