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Word: absurd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Technology-nuclear weapons, microcomputers, killer satellites-may have rendered some of Kafka's nightmares obsolete. And we have lived so long with the absurd, retailed for so many years by so many depressing Frenchmen, that it bores us. But Franz Kafka's works still serve the primary function he described in a 1904 letter to his friend Oskar Pollak: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius of the Blackest Impulses | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...also said reading period in its current form was "absurd" but that faculty intransigence made prospects for change of the academic calendar unlikely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERG Elects Students to CUE; Representatives Discuss Issues | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

...fledged rising star in the company. The accumulated venom flies fast and free during this encounter of the caustic kind, building up to a classic display of feminine fisticuffs. The scene is handled perfectly by Ross, as the two friends suddenly dissolve into laughter when they mutually realize the absurd spectacle they are making of themselves. The crisp repartee of Arthur Laurents' script is at its sharpest throughout the bitter exchanges of stored jealousy and rancor, and their final reconciliation ends the film on a suitably touching note...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Roads Not Taken... | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

Lawrence D. Shubow '44 attorney for the Indians, said yesterday the decision was "logically absurd--how can you say there is a tribe in 1834 and not in 1869?" He added he believes the decision to be so contradictory that the judge may have to order a new trial...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Jury Makes Indian Suit Decision | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...Absurd...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Jury Makes Indian Suit Decision | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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