Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...useless, of course, to deny rumors and to ask for retractions. Once started, the harm is done. May I, however, suggest that the Crimson has editorial responsibility of the same character that any other news organ has. To permit publication of an utterly absurd story of this character can serve no useful purpose. I leave the question of good taste to your own maturer reflections. William Y. Elliott...
...spanking itself. This time the paddle was wielded by one of its own members, Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, only radio engineer on the commission. In a letter to Minnesota's Senator Lundeen, Engineer Craven (who dissented from the cancellation order) labeled the reasoning of his colleagues "absurd on its face." "Nothing can stop scientific research and technical progress in a free democracy," wrote he, "if incentive is not discouraged by government. ... In my opinion, the technique of television has advanced to the stage where an initial public trial is entirely justified. . . . There is no need ... for a commission...
...absurd to criticize Grosz on the score of techniue, for he is a polished craftsman. In most instances his supposedly crude manipulation of line and what may appear to be a sloppy method of organization, in reality, are masterly examples of precise adaptation of style to subject matter. And it is equally absurd to criticize the Germanborn American on the basis of obscenity or vulgarity. Obscenity and vulgarity, in art at any rate, imply a certain amount of conscious effort on the part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem...
First, if he should win his suit, it is absurd to think that the Crimson would continue its attack upon him. Naturally, the whole campaign would collapse if its arguments were proved untrue. Second, Mr. Wolff's own statement that his income this year is higher than usual indicates that he is well able to hire expert legal aid, if he wants to, for not long ago the magazine Time looked into Harvard tutoring schools and reported that they are a decidedly lucrative business. Finally, he does not have to prove actual monetary loss from the Crimson attack in order...
...Ella was not absurd, and it is the special virtue of Jenny Ballou's book that she makes that plain. Some of Ella's first poems were "lovely in their lilt, overbrimming with an authentic freshness of emotion." She had great energy, great sincerity, great generosity, and on occasion great good sense. Even when she became a fixture of yellow journalism, her spontaneity remained untainted by cynicism. What was it that led her on into the self-deception that finally broke down in her last tragic years? ("I shall be forgotten," she said, "while more careful and conscientious...