Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third rate operetta, "Carousel" is bad enough, but as a mystic fantasy with songs it is absurd and over-sentimental...
...Francisco, Batista hit the ceiling. "Absurd!" he cried. "But you really could use the word stupid...
...censorship and report it (TIME, March 5). He just didn't hear of it until he read it in a newspaper. But if Pegler got cheated out of some agreeable notoriety, he did get something which he and many U.S. editors wanted: a slight easing up of an absurd censorship. The White House promised that henceforth, once the President is back in town, it will always be all right to say that he has been away, and where...
...Another good example of exaggeration," Professor Marks continued, "is the popular notion that the helicopter will replace the automobile in the post-war decade. The helicopter will always be more hazardous than the automobile, and it is absurd to think that the housewife will use it for shopping. Perhaps business-men who live in suburban communities may find it convenient--but its popular possibilities have been greatly-overrated...
...provocative show. Some visitors are impervious; others leave with their bonnets abuzz. Last week, on the somewhat dusty subject, "Are Clothes Modern?," the" Museum confronted visitors with some sharp displays and comments by Austrian-born Architect-Designer Bernard Rudofsky. On the thesis that clothes are always artificial, often absurd, sometimes harmful, the exhibition ranged from clanky chest armor to bird-cage bustles...