Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adam's Rib is acted as though the players found it funny, but actually, like many "sophisticated" movie comedies, it is more absurd than comical. Its chief asset: a high-toned song called Farewell, Amanda, with dismal lyrics which Cole Porter must have written while waiting...
...This is absurd, but the absurdity is not the University's. Can it be that international organizations, national and local governments, other public institutions, and industries cannot use more experts? Shall a complex world let laymen handle so many of its plans? We may find that it is a costly business, possibly a fatal business, to make our universities practice "negative guidance," to limit the supply of experts, and then to find out, too late, that we needed them after...
...declared that "so long as we do not ask the college students to go about in period clothes, it seems absurd to build college buildings in pseudo-period design...
...judgment the Lustron type of home cannot be satisfactorily marketed until such time as it can be sold for a maximum sum of $6,500 including the building site, and to continue to waste the taxpayers' money on such a project is absurd...
Except for Roman Catholic opposition on the detail of birth control information, the report was received last week with general acclaim in Britain. It has cleared the air of alarmist thinking, avoided absurd excesses of "population planning" (see cut) and made a start toward public policy on a problem that faces many nations-how to induce the more intelligent groups to have enough children to reproduce themselves...