Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absurd an idea...
...these portraits and the psychological story which they tell; but it is also fascinating as a specimen of modern, secular hagiography. In that respect it can wholly satisfy only those who are unquestioningly convinced of Roosevelt's greatness. The claim that the picture is completely nonpolitical is absurd. It is not only intensely political, but biased and sentimental; e.g., there is no recognition of such failures in international diplomacy as the Yalta conference. The comments of the plain people who remember and tell the Roosevelt story are mawkish examples of common-mannishness. The only dissenting voice is from...
...DEPUTY, "JUST HAS NOTHING VERY MUCH TO OFFER THE PEASANTS." I AM AT A LOSS TO UNDERSTAND HOW SUCH AN ABSURD PHRASE COULD HAVE APPEARED IN MR. WELLES'S ARTICLE. "THERE ARE EVEN LEFTIST CABINET MINISTERS HERE WHO HATE RUSSIA" THAT HE COULD NOT HAVE HEARD FROM...
...real issue at hand by the game which seems to have become the new national pastime--"I Spy--a Red!" Are we to seek out the Communist position on any question and thereupon, automatically, to support the opposite side? Unless we are prepared to accept such a patently absurd criterion for political thinking, we must be prepared to find the Communists at least occasionally in agreement with us, and, as in the Smith demonstration, fighting side by side with us against a common enemy...
Fashion notes from Longfellow Hall were added by Smith graduate Helen Mills of New York City, who found the local college habit of "going around in flannel shorts the most ridiculous and absurd thing that I have ever seen...