Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Absence is a measured book -the judiciously sympathetic, judiciously horrified and ever so slightly absurd portrait of an old-code Southern woman lost in the '70s. Hester Glenn, 48, is a daughter of the town's First Family, accustomed to finding her opinions prevailing, like the order of nature. With her usual demanding expectations, Miss Hester married a dashing young man, whose chief qualification was his resemblance, on horseback, to her ideal of a Confederate officer. Off the horse, he turned out to be a cad. Miss Hester-as rigid as she was frigid-raised her two fatherless...
...There is absolutely no way I can imagine these laws being applied in this case," one Law professor gasped. "The only possible application is one of aiding and abetting espionage, and that is simply absurd...
...reward for giving evidence rose from ?40 to ? 140, or from $2,000 to $7,000 in modern money, as Author Gerald Howson reckons it. The figures seem inflated; he reports, for instance, that the highest-priced whores of the time cost ?50 a night, by his scale an absurd $2,500 in 1971 dollars...
...right to knock one person off the list [of proposed committee members] is absurd," the faculty member said. "After one challenge, Hartman is entirely subject to the whims of the faculty which approved the termination of his contract...
...popularity is bizarre; his work, in one sense, is not popular at all. You cannot go into a department store and buy a print of a Warhol. But go down a couple of floors and they proliferate among the groceries: row after row of Brillo cartons, absurd ziggurats of Mott's apple juice and Del Monte peaches towering up under the flat strip lighting. By now nobody who has seen a Warhol can enter a supermarket without the hallucinatory and even monstrous feeling that life is imitating art and that the principle of repetition and meaningless abundance on which...