Word: absurd
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...functions of the conference, changing it from a discussion group to a problem-solving body. They have been helped in this last maneuver because NSA is not nearly so well organized on the local level as it is on the regional and national levels. But it would be absurd for NSA schools like Harvard to pay dues to a local organization that is not only unintegrated into the NSA on the larger levels, but might actually be in conflict with it. If the Greater Boston conference tries to be more than a discussion and idea exchange group, then...
...evidence . . . seems to indicate that Cardinal Mindszenty was trying to impose the will of the Church on the state . . . Regardless of the evils of Communism, it is absurd to suppose that the government has not got a perfect moral right to protect itself against all subversive efforts to overthrow it. Aren't we trying twelve Communists on exactly the same charges in our own country...
...neutral manner. However, the "on the one hand and on the other hand" approach seems to me to leave much to be desired when we come to as clear-cut a matter as probity in public life. The notion that every classroom should become a public forum is patently absurd. To the best of my knowledge, all persons enrolled in my course have done so voluntarily. That being the case, I am afraid they will have to put up with what I have to say, even if they find it offensive or tinged with error. I shall, of course...
Just Follow the Crowd. Among Negro intellectuals, the Zulus and all their doings are considered offensive vestiges of the minstrel-show, Sambo-type Negro. To Armstrong such touchiness seems absurd, and no one who knows easygoing, nonintellectual Louis will doubt his sincerity. To Jazz King Armstrong, lording it over the Zulu Parade (a broad, dark satire on the expensive white goings-on in another part of town) will be the sentimental culmination of his spectacular career, and a bang-up good time besides...
...puns ("very-close veins"), but even more painful than that is the constant resort to New Haven, Connecticut for the setting of any situation involving actual or implied sexual orgies. This quite possibly flushes fresh life into some of the wilted egos down there, but isn't it rather absurd...