Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leonid Andreyev's play is difficult to produce because of its resemblance to the Scandinavian drama, especially of Strinberg, which, if not handled with great finesse, can all too easily collapse into a conglomeration of heroics and absurd fantasy. In his contemporary Gorki, the intellectual depression around 1900 produced revolutionary ideas; in Andreyev it resulted in the almost morbid gloom of such works as "The Red Laugh...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd promptly took occasion to call the trusteeship idea "absurd"-if Russia can claim and take strategic lands, why shouldn...
Such is the prestige of the King James Bible that any later translations seem as absurd and outrageous as rewriting Shakespeare. Worse, in fact, for Shakespeare is mere literature, and to many millions of Protestant Americans the Bible is the Word...
...Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result...
...these British officers, Captain George Reid Millar, has described his experiences as an area leader of the French Resistance. Captain Millar has the face of a fanatic without a dogma (this made it possible for him to lead a forlorn hope). He also has a sense of the absurd, which makes it difficult for him to take seriously the politics of the Right or the Left. This helps to keep his report of the Resistance in focus as a patriotic (rather than a social) uprising...