Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method of presentation is very similar to that used by Mrs. Rinehart in her sub-deb stories; the chief difference is that the sub-deb stories were intentionally funny. Told in the first person, the book is not altogether dull, but is full of many incidents that are absurd and often amusing. There seems to be no true sense of value--perhaps Miss Kelley is trying to show that city-life is apt to throw things out of proportion--but at times one is annoyed by the emphasis that is put upon trivial and unimportant matters. Often one is inclined...
...principal nations of the world would on the other hand afford an effective way of exerting pressure on Germany. If the United States were a member of the League of Nations and had a representative on the Reparations Commission, our influence, I believe, would have prevented the present absurd and hopeless situation and might have brought the problem well towards its solution...
...injunction, "Agree with thin adversary quickly," is the weapon proposed by Mr. Paul E. Jackson, in "The Glee Club's Name--What of It?" for ending the unprofitable contention regarding that organization. This is a humorous and fairly successful attempt to bring about a reduction ad absurd of the whole disagreement...
...than the proverbial redskin who "bites the dust," there is much that is genuinely funny on the other side of the scales. The cover, by N. Choate '22, is perhaps the best of all; at first glance it is not too startling; but closer examination reveals a wealth of absurd details that go to make up a unique conception indeed. It is not easy to pick out any particular item that is vastly superior to the rest; most of those worth mentioning are written in conventional Lampoon style, tinged with attempted Stephen Leacockism, which, as often as not, succeeds...
Right here near at home, at the University of Illinois, under Lawrence Erb, music credits are beginning to find their academic level. Much of the absurd prejudice against music in our universities has been due to impractical plans offered by incompetents. With the new order of progressive music educators, invading our educational system from the public schools to our higher university music is at last winning its place as a study that rounds out an otherwise incomplete educative scheme...