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Hung up on grammar; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Features)
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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March 18, 2009
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Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge
QUESTIONWhy was Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916) said to have been 'hanged on a comma'?
ROGER DAVID CASEMENT, born in Dublin on September 1, 1864, served for many years as a distinguished British consul in Mozambique, Angola, the Congo Free State (where he helped to force the King of the Belgians to overhaul their appalling treatment of the Congolese in 1908) and Brazil.
For his services to Britain he was awarded a knighthood in 1911, retiring from the diplomatic service in ill-health and establishing himself in ...
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Modernist Song: The Poetry of Tristan Tzara.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...1904713149 Modernist song; the poetry of Tristan Tzara. Forcer, Stephen. Legenda 2006...Samuel Rosenstock in Romania in 1896, Tzara is known as the Father of Dada and...consider the overall breadth and Tzara's poetry. As well as paying attention...
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Tzara: Blanc Manifesto.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner
; Tzara: Blanc Manifesto Tristan at his most outrageous proposes a Church of the Idiot Savant What...light is white Nothing of the centuries only white according to dear Tristan Thus night is gauche So sleep is artless And if the clouds dim the...
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Serious, comical equal `Travesties'.(Arts)(Theater)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...relative peace. It was there that Tristan Tzara and other artists disgusted by the...good dramatic duet between Joyce and Tzara about the definition of dada and...vaudeville as Jason Gilbert's aggressive Tzara and Christopher Henley's angular...
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East Art Maps.(Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Art Monthly
; ...been born and raised in Romania--Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and his brothers Jules...and Arthur Segal. The fact of Tzara's country of birth is routinely...was only 19 when he left Romania, Tzara had become part of this coterie...
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Travesties.(Theater Review)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety
; ...Running time: 2 HOURS, 55 MIN. Henry Carr Sam Waterston Tristan Tzara Tom Hewitt James Joyce Don Stephenson Lenin Gregor Paslawsky...words is between such pivotal figures as James Joyce and Tristan Tzara? What better ringmaster to preside over revolutions...
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Huntington's `Travesties': Wild, witty, but wayward
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...James Joyce and the surrealist Tristan Tzara. (Stoppard has fabricated this...embalmed religion. Exactly as Tzara's freewheeling notions are challenged...Camp is as good as his name as Tristan Tzara. Robin Chadwick is a ramrod straight...
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Shotgun Players tackle Stoppard's zany wit, as 'Travesties' takes on Wilde, Joyce, dadaism.(DAILY DATEBOOK)(Theater Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; ...figure and Dada founder Tristan Tzara utters dialogue from...explains at the end) 1918. Tzara (Kevin Clarke) is conducting...research for Joyce. Make Tzara a suitor to Carr's sister...Jack at the library and Tristan in the world -- and Carr...
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Welcome Travesties: Burning Coal twice lights the way, with the season?s chewiest play and a controversial new comedy
Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly
; ...year as James Joyce and Dadaist Tristan Tzara. In Stoppard?s work, they all...words what Joyce?s prose and Tzara?s art actually means to him...shrewd James Joyce. Meanwhile, as Tristan Tzara, a perpetually alarmed-looking...
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Tom Stoppard's travesties and the politics of earnestness.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly
; ...s Travesties brings together Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara in a dazzling display of a time when an incipient communism...cafe conspirators, exiles like James Joyce, Lenin and Tristan Tzara, was the place where ideology merged with reality...
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FROLICKING IN AN INTELLECTUAL PLAYGROUND `TRAVESTIES' SHINES WITH WIT, WONDER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Russia to head the revolution. Or Tristan Tzara, one of the absurdist daddies of...Stoppard. Carr warns the left-leaning Tzara, "I don't think there'll be...for Dada in a Communist society." Tzara replies: "That's what we have...
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