Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that moment the whole experience was suddenly surrealistic. There I was at Yale, for no reason except that a group of boys just couldn't stand it anymore, sitting in a strange newsroom, writing some story about some lady masturbating with a cross. It was bizarre and slightly absurd. All at once I was feeling isolated and quite lonely...
...With respect to your statement of this morning, let me say only that I do not consider discussions by this Faculty 'absurd,' especially since many other groups, including SDS, have, on their own, already discussed the ROTC issue," he wrote...
...helping to dramatize that fact, the welfare mothers and their supporters were trying to do something which needed to be done. They are not criminals or conspirators as Governor Volpe would like us to believe. A charge of conspiracy for such a protest as this one is absurd and unjust...
FOUR-LETTER WORDS aside, the dialogue of Sligar stretches the imagination almost as much as the plot construction. The lines range from pure exposition to the hokey (Father, speaking of the son: "He called me old man!") to the absurd ("I don't know where you're headed, but you're going to be pushed there damn fast."). Some of the worst writing centers around Paul's teenage affair, gratuitously stuck into the second half--complete with flashback...
...touch, the pale mountains around the deserted city. And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world." Yet, despite this lyrical sensualism, it was Camus' beiief in an intellectual revolt (after facing "the absurd") that most renewed and sustained his bat tle against the "quivering wings" of a suicidal death...