Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absurd for them to be spending billions of dollars going to the moon for some rocks, when every common sense and human person can see that it's necessary to solve the social injustices and evils that exist...
...voting a Government seizure, Chalk will probably reap one final windfall. He owns real estate that he pulled away from B.C. Transit and incorporated separately. The price for the company, excluding the real estate, he has set somewhere between $40 million and $50 million. "That," noted Senator Williams, "is absurd"; but the Government will nonetheless have to pay a good price to rescue B.C. Transit from its present owners...
Consider, for instance, the drama of the absurd that could have resulted if the Bayh amendment had been ratified in early...
Michael Schiffer's Enobarbus was monotone but fitfully engaging. His death scene redeemed his absurd flippant, balmy, detachment at the opening. He read every line the same (piano) but it was an agreeable reading. Timothy Clark as Caesar gave disquieting signs of yet another misconceived, automaton, bloodless ruler, but gradually infused this crucial role (for it is a drama of East and West, both imperfectly noble) with the life and subtlety it demands. Clark gave dramatic center to each of his scenes, and so offered the finest performance of the evening...
...happy being here despite requirements which seem silly or absurd. Wisdom comes from living. Learning an academic discipline is only a part of life, even for a graduate student. The knowledge provided by academic disciplines is not wisdom, but wisdom is not possible without knowledge...