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Dadaism is passe. There are few epitaphs less devastating for any school of art. In fact, any school which comes into the world shouting about revolutions and complete detachment can usually expect not to outlive its own boisterous exclamations. Nevertheless, most of the things here are not high Dada. The...
By the 1930's the railroads, once fearsomely modern, were pleasantly passe. The automobile had crowded out the train as an everyday means of transportation, though people found that owning a car brought headaches as well as freedom, not to mention flat tires. Some of them (never very many) wondered...
The Tatas always mixed social-mindedness with their capitalism. Over the years they led in raising industrial wages, improving the health and housing of employees. Eighty per cent of the wealth of Tata Sons was systematically given away to charitable trusts. When leftists say capitalism is passe, Tata replies: so...
Although three-D is passe, the circus is dying, and the Conventions promise little in the way of thrills, the Group 20 production of Goethe's Faust (Part I) shows that the theatre is still capable of providing exciting spectacle.
Now Khrushchev should realize that his "now you see him, now you don't" technique might well be used against himself. To forestall his own disappearance, he should take measures which are more permanent than Stalin's--books and busts are passe in an era of incinerators and chisels. Khrushchev...