Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Western powers have begun to arm West Germany and turn her into an instrument of their policy spearheaded against the Soviet Union," Moscow said, "the very essence of the Allied agreement on Berlin has vanished ... A patently absurd situation has thus arisen, where the Soviet Union is supporting and maintaining, as it were, the favorable conditions for the Western powers' activity against the U.S.S.R...
...Uncle (Continental). Jacques Tati is a French comedian whose big feet, small head, great height and bolted rigidity invest him, as he jerks and jolts and fidgets through his films, with the marvelously absurd demeanor of an Eiffel Tower out for a Sunday stroll. But from his solitary eminence, Moviemaker Tati (Jour de Fête, Mr. Hulot's Holiday) takes a solemn view of the comic art and the contemporary scene. "Look what is happening to us," he glooms. "This specialization. Depersonalization is taking all the human meaning out of our daily life. A man used...
...true that foreigners are funny, that men are silly and that dictatorships are absurd. At any rate, British Novelist Mary McMinnies makes it seem that way. With breathless garrulity she has spun out a story about a raft of people afloat on an ocean of misery in a modern people's republic. (The country is called Slavonia, and it resembles Poland, where she once lived with a British diplomat husband.) The "visitors" of the title -Americans and Britons engaged in the black art of propaganda-never had it so good. Larry Purdoe is editor of the Voice of Britain...
...coffee and smiles. "Now we've been getting along fine with our trade unions for years. If a man wants to join a union, and it's in his interest to do so, we let him go right ahead. A "Right to Work" law would be absurd in Britain." A Californian manufacturer behind him overhears, turns around, and the pair are soon in eager debate over their coffee cups...
Your Oct. 6 "A Stand on Principle" was most absurd. When you try to rationalize that Mr. Dulles is right, then I think it is time something should be said about principles. Why is it, if you believe in the American Way of Life (I presume that this is synonymous with democracy), that you recognize Chiang? If you recognize Communist Russia's government, why not recognize Communist China's government...