Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given 15 years at hard labor, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and an eventual dis honorable discharge. "I am shocked," said Paul Halvonik, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who defended Sood. "Fifteen years for going out and singing and raising his fingers in a 'V is absurd." Sood, a draftee who had gone AWOL last September because he heard that his wife was neglecting their children back home, was due for discharge at Fort Lewis, Wash., the week he was arrested...
COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY is a Sean O'Casey play that has rarely been staged during the 20 years since it was written. Accustomed as they are to the theater of the absurd, today's theatergoers are less likely than the audiences of the '50s to balk at the play's zany unconcern with sequiturs, probabilities or dramatic p's and g's. The very talented players of the APA Repertory Company make this blast at what O'Casey felt was wrong with Ireland into a rollicking, rambunctious piece of theater...
Norman Dine, 60, the insomniac proprietor of a New Jersey store called the "Sleep Center," provides his clients with custom tape-recorded exhortations from their minister or psychiatrist. One nagged, "You hate to face reality because you think you don't measure up. It's absurd to dwell on something like this." Of course, many iron-willed morning veterans rely on nothing more complicated than putting the alarm clock across the room. But if that fails, for $384, Dine sells an ejecting bed. At the proper ungodly hour, it catapults its owner upright...
...because of this structure, sex rapidly becomes the only alternative to the world of the mind. It becomes an equally absurd ritual. Sex is real. There is certainly no doubt about that. But it is only real as part of our animalism. This should not be denied, and we need not be ashamed of it. Sex is one part, one fiber in the tapestry. If I love you, I will love your arms and legs, your hands and feet, your elbows and ankles and toes. My body will love your body, and sex will be part of that...
Only Elizabeth had dared to tell her greatest fear. The others remained in silence--a silence, for the boy, that was funny, schizophrenic, and absurd. There he sat, feeling the warm sun pouring through the windows and bathing his body, feeling the strength of the land and the mountains that surrounded them all, feeling his own strength--and yet unable to escape the strange, gnawing tension that was building in this group where people farted back and forth...