Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author is a fourth-year graduate student in English. Last spring he defended twenty people before the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and attended many other hearings as an observer. He is presently writing his doctoral thesis on the theme of justice and its absurd procedures in Shakespeare, Brecht, Camus and Kafka...
...hearing. I realized it was a new Committee, and that it might be "very loathe" to consider old business, but it seemed to me that this should not be held against Fink. I also told Anderson that I thought the Committee's grounds for appeal, "compelling reasons," were absurd. I suggested that I ought to be allowed to argue in person for Fink at the very least. Anderson agreed on both counts but added that he did not have the individual power to allow me to appear before the Committee. He had to ask the Committee's approval for this...
...author is a fourth-year graduate student in English. Last Spring he defended twenty people before the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and attended many other hearings as an observer. He is presently writing his doctoral thesis on the theme of justice and its absurd procedures in Shakespeare, Brecht, Camus and Kafka...
...dark tract between social role and inner imagination whose verbal maps were drawn by Kubin's Middle European contemporary, Franz Kafka. The Guilt, 1902, is quintessential Kubin: a starveling figure immersed to his knees in water, bent double under the weight of a fat, disaffected-looking seal-slimy, absurd and immovable. The beast is not even malevolent enough to make his victim look brave. It was with such images that alienation became identifiable as a state of art and its rule over the European imagination began...
...This can go on forever," Hoffmann said. "The end result may be to oblige us to help give the South Vietnamese breathing space for ever and ever-which would be patently absurd, but would not be the first absurd thing that's happened in this...