Word: pegasus
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Michael Hancher '63, of Lowell House and Roselle, N.Y., was elected Pegasus, head of the literary board...
Futurism got its name from the Italian Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who in 1909 issued a flamboyant manifesto calling for a new philosophy of art suitable to the age of the machine. Not Pegasus, he declared, but the racing car, "with its hood draped with exhaust pipes like fire-breathing serpents," should be the new symbol of poetry. "A racing car, rattling along like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." The artist should "sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and boldness...