Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authentic dialogue" but an alternating series of monologues that fell on deaf ears. Ears deaf because of the secure knowledge that the fellow passenger would probably never cross paths with you again. For the moment you were together, going the same place. Complete reticence would be as absurd as complete loquacity in such a situation...
Most Arabists consider a coup against Sadat highly-if not absurd-unlikely. They also question whether the reported Russian military moves took place at all. They may be right in their skepticism. But three months ago some of those same observers also expressed doubt when the first reports appeared that the Soviets and Egyptians were violating the Middle East cease-fire by moving scores of missiles up to the Suez Canal. That time they were dead wrong...
...launched her on her modern stage career. That was 1896; Jarry was 23. His egg-shaped Père Ubu of monstrous honesty, the grotesque Dr. Faustroll with his science of 'Pataphysics and his Caesar-Antichrist are the collective grandparents of the theaters of cruelty and the absurd. As Jarry lay dying at 34-of an acute brain inflammation caused by tuberculosis and aggravated by drink-he was obsessed by that image of death's anarchic joke, a skull and crossbones with its toothy eternal grin. To his last words he was defiantly absurdist: he asked...
Asked if he would file charges with the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. Fox called the suggestion "absurd...
...read it with such deep regret. The author's attitude must surely represent a Harvard equivalent of all the "Old Yale" chauvinisms which now seem so distasteful to most of us. And it was so very petty. A personal attach against Mr. Brewster. A pointless and absurd attempt to characterize the Yale faculty's intellectual contributions in terms of "Love Story" and Mr. Reich's recent tract, "The Greening of America" In short, a published ego trip where. in Mr. Kinsley indulges his vendetta against Yale in a manner which does not flatter the CRIMSON...