Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe to boost exports was running according to plan. Said Per Jacobsson, director of the International Monetary Fund: "I do not think the U.S. gold outflow represents any real threat to the dollar. With the U.S. possessing more than half of the world's gold it would be absurd to say that...
...world and some troubled people," the dust jacket proclaims, "written by a young man who knows them at first hand." But how does Zane know them? Does he care? Does he approve? Does he condemn? Indeed, for the reader, does it matter? Wyeth and Steiner ultimately appear trivial and absurd. A child, at least, grows up; but the down-and-outs in Easy Living are adults gone to seed. They are grown men and women romping in diapers, shouting to attract our attention, aware of our criticism, scornful of our values, yet forever concerned with what we think of them...
...Easy Living into a trite account of the nocturnal habits of a seedy set of people. In the absence of any moral clarity, either in defense of or opposition to this new life, we are left with a gutless congregation of men and women--shallow, mechanical, colorless--who do absurd things and utter ridculous statements but who never seem to be aware of their own humanity...
Senator Bridges' proposal to prevent schools from buying Communist-made scientific demonstration equipment with National Defense Education Act Funds is a fine example of the linkage of absurd over-protectionism with misuse of the provisions of the NDEA...
...Last Order. The immensity of this project, says Author Duggan, makes us "inclined to dismiss it as absurd." But the Romans were "genuinely afraid" of it. Before Mithradates could attempt his march on Italy, his son Pharnaces II led a revolution to overthrow him. Trapped in his own palace, the 69-year-old despot barked his last order-and was obediently stabbed to death by a trusted follower. Many a decade would pass before the memory of the King of Pontus faded from Roman minds-and still more decades before the brutish campaigns of the victors were forgotten...