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...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, which aroused a legitimate enthusiasm in all of us." (Later Dadaist...
...same year Paris dadaists gave a "Festival" in the respectable Salle Gaveau Concert Hall. The program bore the announcement: "Personal Appearance of Charlie Chaplin. The dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building...
...unctuous Emmanuel de Las Cases, who was 49, three years older than Napoleon, and who followed Napoleon because he wanted to win immortality by being his Boswell. He was so open in his admiration for the Emperor that his hard-eyed rivals called him "Rapture." Another follower was Charles Tristan de Montholon, a born courtier who accompanied Napoleon into exile because his debts were so great he could go nowhere else. Swaggering, hypersensitive, jealous Caspar Gourgaud also went along because he had no other choice. General Henri Gratien Bertrand, Napoleon's Grand Marshal, tall, skinny and timid...
...residents of Tristan da Cunha, "world's loneliest island," in the South Atlantic midway between South Africa and South America, possess no cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
...route from Mother Britain to this outpost of Empire last week was a sailing vessel, the Royal Mail Cap Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...