Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics are inconsistent. They are proud that he is a descendant of William the Conqueror and object when he proves to be an atavism more like his Norman ancestors than his more recent ones...
Dada is something newer, different, a bewilderment that affected the art world of Europe for a few shell-shocked years during and immediately after the War. The object of dadaism was a conscious attack on reason, a complete negation of everything, the loudest and silliest expression of post-War cynicism. "I affirm," wrote early Dadaist Hans Arp, "that Tristan Tzara discovered the word 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...
Surrealism. An art movement without hope or object cannot last long. Dadaist Max Ernst in his desire to spit in the eye of the world was experimenting about this time with what he calls his collages: fantastic pictures made by cutting apart old engravings and rearranging them to make bustled ladies with lions' heads, assassins with angels' wings, strange trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered...
...object of the trip to Waterbury has not been determined, but those taking it have declared there seemed to be a very good reason at the time. After cruising around the square, and scraping acquaintance with the policeman of that village, the Harvard man suddenly decided he would die if he did not get a drink of water immediately. The car was stopped. He ran to a drinking fountain in the square, walked around it several times, stopped and stared. The paternal cop who had been observing the group for some time took...
Those who object to the plan concern themselves largely with practical difficulties, but cannot, apparently, offer any substitute whatsoever. It is true that the makers of schedules must be patient and thoughtful, but the task before them is not Herculean. As for past tradition, it is, after all, largely a matter a venerability and not necessarily of utility. And only a little breadth of imagination is required to forsee a worthy and comprehensive tradition of amateurism in football solidly bolstered by the seven Ivy Colleges...