Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slender, faun-faced Dancer Weidman, 46, is the son of a Lincoln, Neb. fireman. He joined Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis famed Denishawn group in 1920. On a tour of the Orient with them, it suddenly came over him how absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
SINCE THE ARABS TOOK THE ABSURD ATTITUDE THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND THEIR PALESTINE HOMES AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ASSAULTS OF ZIONISM, AN UNPROVOKED CAMPAIGN WAS WAGED AGAINST THEM, WIELDING THE DEADLIEST OF WEAPONS RIDICULE. IN YOUR ISSUE OF APRIL 21, APROPOS OF NOTHING, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF THE WEAPONS OF ZIONISM, YOU HELD UP TO RIDICULE AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND A REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC...
...just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe," he mused, "it will help good poetry get some sales...
Headmaster Fuess had, at least, been forthright. His first step was to abolish the compulsory classics; he found it "absurd to drive a boy with no aptitude for the subject two or three times through Caesar's Commentaries." He prefers to have only half his boys take Latin, "because they want...
...high dudgeon, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried: "I am astonished, to say the least, that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should associate itself with Marriner Eccles in his perfectly absurd effort to justify [his credit policy...