Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball game and not the dance I had come to see. It is a lot like a game, and makes you laugh without being humorous. Interesting to watch is how the simplest actions, like running and forming lines, are the most exciting in open space, and how absurd gestures look even funnier when windswept...
When asked whether the concept of the end of the universe could be understood intuitively, Field said "the theory is logically absurd," adding that even mathematics cannot yet account satisfactorily for the beginning and end of time...
...whole thing seems like a scene out of the theater of the absurd. Crews trickle into the oathouse and silently--who has anything to say at 6 a.m.--stir a shell from its sleep, lug it to the edge of the dock and drop it into the river...
...expecting millions of tourists," Mary tells Brinkley.) The bumbling corruption of Soviet-American disarmament negotiators and the CIA's school for assassins are cleverly ridiculed, but the caricatures contain more than a morsel of truth. Yet the whole "message," if it is indeed a message, is almost too absurd...
Mather, like certain other Houses, simply does not have the redeeming features for which the school gives it credit. If the laws of supply and demand held in establishing rents in the Houses, a room in Lowell or Adams would be worth much more. It seems absurd that the University can expect to supply its tenants with so little and still charge a considerable amount for room and board...