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Like everything in life, Dada is useless," proclaimed the Romanian-born poet Tristan Tzara in 1922, when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball...
Visions of Tomorrow The figure on your cover must not be able to see any real "Visions of Tomorrow" through his blue-lensed glasses [Oct. 25]. The attention given to sports, cars, gadgets and the like in your reporting on the future caters to the affluent, self-centered and ignorant...
Two weeks ago, the Crimson Staff demanded that the Harvard Management Company (HMC) divest its 72,000 shares of Chinese state-owned energy giant PetroChina because of its oil operations in Sudan. The editors rightfully pointed to the connection between Harvard’s endowment funds and the atrocities in...
Upon hearing my query and reading the offending excerpt, the illustrious chair of said department merely chuckled and repeatedly pointed out the misuse to his colleagues. Indeed, “pregnant” comes from the Latin “praegnans” meaning “before being born...
The experts pointed to a close game. They said that Penn would find a way to pull it out as it did against Brown and Princeton and to a lesser extent Yale and Columbia. They pointed to the fact that the Crimson hadn’t won at Franklin Field...