Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rawlings has the whole ball manufactured in Haiti, whereas Spalding made the balls domestically and shipped them to Haiti-where labor is cheaper-to be stitched. One theory is that the extra trip made Spalding's balls softer; they suffered from jet sag. Absurd? Sure. But what else is there to talk about on Grapefruit League buses? Tax shelters...
...reaction to Carter's initiative was predictably swift and angry. Governors and Congressmen from the affected areas echoed Senator Scoop Jackson's charge that the move was an absurd mistake. Declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "It is a waste of money to stop projects that have already started and gone through the long process of justification...
Scientific discoveries belong to the public as well as to science. What the public does with them is the responsibility of society as a whole. It is as absurd to blame scientists as it is to praise them for social phenomena. If we pursued that form of logic, we would find ourselves making Thomas Edison a national hero for describing the nature of electricity, and then trying him posthumously for the deaths of all people who were ever electrocuted...
...Chaplain Landman's letter about the "intellectual chutzpah" of proselytizing [March 7]: Yes, it does take a leap of faith to claim the Scriptures as the only source of God's truth; and to someone who doesn't accept Christianity the claim may indeed sound absurd. But in the final analysis that is the whole point of Christianity. The Scriptures aren't a philosophical methodology or an ethical system (although they include those things), but the Word...
...Manson Murder Victim Sharon Tate, and his life has had elements as dark and quixotic as his art. He is now working on a movie version of The First Deadly Sin, which portrays a business executive obsessed with sexual perversion and homicide. Thus it was hardly theater of the absurd that Polanski, 43, should find himself arrested in the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and accused of raping a 13-year-old "aspiring actress," a charge he emphatically denies...