Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past had volunteer recruits beyond the Versailles quota and had manufactured munitions in defiance of the Treaty, but he declared that this was done to meet critical situations involving civil war. The present situation, he insisted, was regular and conformed to the treaty limits. "It is," he said, "absurd to talk about secret preparations. And they know this perfectly well in Entente lands...
...play itself appropriately is a farce concerned with box-office failures, actors contracts, and the formation of casts. It is a burlesque of all that goes on in the making of a great American drama, both in front and in back of the foot-lights. There is an absurd and highly melodramatic dress rehearsal wherein the lights come on at the wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna...
...weeks I have watched the antics of these strange people at Dravrah and have told you of the absurd and puerile things that go on in the name of education. What I have seen convinces me that most of the Satellites do not know what education is. They are told they are getting it, so they believe they are. They think it is the product of a formula which they state as follows...
Said Private Crouch: "Our 'propaganda' consisted largely of letters to a local newspaper correcting absurd misstatements about Russia, such as a story that Trotzky had banished Kremlin,*-the War Minister...
...like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That words can ever be used thus fastidiously is a doubtful hypothesis. Poet Cummings, in his wilder moments, imitates the young...