Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many workers grievances. Holcombe's have a specific focus but seem more important for the general malaise they portray. Harvard to him is the powerful, anonymous Him on the other end of the phone, the organization he says portrays him as "a dull witted man full of absurd notions"--while he must seem to Harvard an inexperienced troublemaker, someone who, as Stefani says, needs to "get educated" to the way labor management relations are usually conducted here Holcombe's aggressive, stream-of-grievances. Harvard-as-enemy style of shop stewardship is new to the University, and although Balsam seems...
...only notion of acting seems to be to widen her eyes. As in the most hard-core pornography, a threadbare plot exists only to bring on more skin and to make the idea of watching people make love for two hours seem continually purposeful and slightly less absurd...
Were the voices then holy or demonic? It depends on who is listening, Keneally seems to say. But if he has no new answer, he has a new question. His Joan - part battle flag, part rebel and part saint - adds up to a heroic surrogate for the absurd and contradictory in Every man, "the feel of the frayed edges of all the world's foolishness coalescing in her guts." Is her mystery, he asks, harder to explain than the mystery of any reader's life...
...deliver their critique, the community groups have indicated that they are outraged by a report that claims an influx of a million visitors a year will have only minimal effects on the Square. Two major newspapers, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe have condemned the draft statement as absurd...
Kelley maintained that the FBI had not pried into the private lives of Congressmen, except where they were being considered for federal jobs or were the subjects of criminal investigations. But he admitted that the FBI kept on hand raw data-much of them unsubstantiated rumors or absurd speculations-about the private activities of Congressmen and other public figures. Most of the data were collected in the course of unrelated criminal investigations or were received unsolicited from informants and private citizens...