Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who attack The Crimson for its principled stand on these issues, in the name of some abstract, foggy and even self-contradictory concept called "objective journalism," are as absurd and disgusting as that woman who said she would cooperate in an effort to undermine the livelihood, the daily bread, of people who have fed her at her convenience for the last four years, simply because she is a "liberal economist." The anti-Crimson mood, and its representatives like Peter Keyes '78, reminds me of Spiro Agnew's diatribes against the left-wing bias of the "Eastern Establishment" press...
...have you said politics requires a sense of the absurd...
...that? Well, there is a sense of going through a programmed ritual. Each person plays a role-the press, the candidate. It's repetitive. It is absurd to be saying the same thing over and over. There seems to be a premise that a good candidate can produce the Holy Grail. All you can really do is say your piece, which isn't all that different from anybody else's. But I can't come up with a better substitute [to campaigning]. It's a testing process that brings out what people are like...
...director's absurd vision of the Orient culminates in two scenes, one in a Chinese acupuncture shop and another in Bali. In the first, an inscrutable Chinese man in a grey robe places two needles in Emmanuelle's temples, and the audience--along with Emmanuelle's timid male companion--watches her drift off into sexual fantasies. But it's hard to see why she needs anything to set her off, given her behavior in the rest of the film; all the acupuncture does is serve as an excuse for what, predictably, happens next. The scene in Bali, while slightly less...
...sound as absurd and insulting as the Pakistanis who kept telling me that the lives of 600 million people were in my hands. Just because Ghandi refused to sign a peace agreement with Bhutto because of some things Bhutto said in an interview I had with him. I replied--you can read this in my book--that my hands were too small to contain that many people...