Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is nothing at all absurd about the human condition. We matter. It seems to me a good guess, hazarded by a good many people who have thought of it, that we may be engaged in the formation of something like a mind for the life of this planet. If this is so, we are still at the most primitive stage, still fumbling with language and thinking, but infinitely capacitated for the future. Looked at this way, it is remarkable that we've come as far as we have in so short a period, really no time...
...Sunday Times took its case to the 25-year-old European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg. When the commission decided the Sunday Times case was worth hearing a year later, the English government and the courts began backing down. By then, it would have been absurd not to. Almost all the Thalidomide litigation was settled, leaving little to be prejudiced by the press. The dam finally broke: in 1976, the Sunday Times was allowed to print for the first time a story that explicitly discussed Distillers' negligence. And in 1977, the commission decided that England had violated...
...comments merited total attention is not the point. By continually interrupting him, and by denying Bok the opportunity to express himself, the students reduced the 'open' meeting to little more than a mock trial. This kind of militancy earns neither support nor respect, and turns student crusades into absurd jokes...
...community. Not until activist students have the courage to approach less glamorous and idealistic, but equally important problems, will they be taken seriously by their fellow students, by the administration, and by the society they aspire to influence. Until we re-examine our priorities, we will only perpetuate an absurd "charade." Anne A. Maccoby...
Milos Foreman, the Czech director, makes it all very lighthearted and a bit absurd. There is a fantastic equestrian dance sequence in the Aquarius number where two mounted police stallions do a perfectly synchronized two-step...