Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, there is something so embarrassingly absurd about the notion of purging the nation of blacks that it seems hardly a product of thought at all. It is more like a primitive reflex, a throwback to the dim past of tribal experience, which we rationalize and try to make respectable by dressing it up in the gaudy and highly questionable trappings of what we call the "concept of race." Yet, despite its absurdity, the fantasy of a blackless America continues to turn up. It is a fantasy born not merely of racism but of petulance, of exasperation, of moral...
Died. Arthur Adamov, 61, Russian-born playwright of the absurd; by his own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); in Paris. As a young author, writing to expose his "anguish, masochism, perversions and preoccupations," Adamov turned out plays (La Parodie, 1947; L'Invasion, 1949) that earned him ranking with Beckett and lonesco as a founder of the theater of the absurd. His best-known work was 1955's Le Ping-Pong, an angry indictment of man's dehumanization by machines. "Life is not absurd," he finally admitted. "It is difficult, just very difficult...
Finally, this movie of unsexy sex and unleavened violence reveals its most absurd quality: an R rating. The rating system merely operates its hypocritical faculties when it X's such legitimate movies as Medium Cool, then blesses The Adventurers with a finger wag. Gazing at that lone letter, the viewer is left with the same question that occurs as he watches this beer picture on a champagne budget of $10 million...
...pretend that the Administration or Faculty is responsive is absurd." he added. "To pass this resolution is to say that the status quo must be maintained, even if it destroys surrounding communities, and even if it is racist...
...Atkins showed up at City Hall with an amendment. It was defeated, and Atkins switched his vote. He felt that the stadium proposal was absurd as long as the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which he thought was neglectful of its urban renewal projects, was in charge of the construction. He voted no and did his part...