Overbrook High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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PREFACE The age stretching back from i936 has been one of chaos, turmoil, and experimentation. Europe has been one continuous seething kettle in which bubble after bubble has come to the top and burst. Art has gone through ten changes af form in as many years. Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism have come and gone. Harsh strident harmonies have supplanted the gentler music we have been accustomed to hear. The unintelligible repetitions of Gertrude Stein have been accepted as poetry. Yet, through all this change, there is much that has retained its familiar appearance. But one characteristic is outstanding in all this confusion-the work is experimentalg we cannot be the final judges of its worth. We have made this record bool: as a symbol af its age. You will find much in it that is strange, newg much that is familiar. On the whole this book is experimental, accept it as such, and suspend final judgment on it. I

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