词汇 | dada |
词源 | Dada. An artistic and literary movement founded in Switzer- land in 1916 that flouted conventional values and advocated works marked by nonsense and incongruity. The child’s word dada for a plaything admirably suited the group’s purpose and was adopted, according to the old story, by one member ran- domly opening a dictionary and pointing randomly to the word. According to the tale, artist Tristan Tzara made the selec- tion and (surely one of the most exact descriptions of the coin- ing of a word) he made it at 6:00 p.m., February 8, 1916, at the Terrace Cafe in Zurich. |
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