Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LIGHTS came down, and several white-clad figures slipped onstage, a man down the row exclaimed, "Oh yeah, this has gotta be theater of the absurd." That happened at the beginning of the evening's second play, Peter Handke's I Came Into the World, last weekend at the Caravan, but the guy was wrong: it was the theater of the exaggerated, the boring, and the awkward...
...traditional play by Richard D. Lehr '76, and a musical by Charles R. Kronauer '76, are scheduled for April 28 and 29. Two plays of the absurd, by Rodney H. Clark '76 and Tom F. Wright '76, will be produced on May 4 and 5. All productions will be at the Freshman Union...
Perchance, if Providence is kind, Woody will be tied up on June 13 making his latest film, whatever and wherever it may be. Make no mistake, Woody Allen can be a marvelously absurd figure, ordering 1200 hamburgers to go for his revolutionary cadre in the middle of a Brazilian rain forest and then running the check. And not many humorists would undertake the filming of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About...
...When both parents and students feel that education is making substantial contributions to the lives of American youth, the problems of the schools will be solved. It is hard to convince parents that they ought to pay taxes to support an absurd institution -just as hard as it is to convince students that they ought to behave sensibly while there...
...publicity engine runs smoothest in the Pudding's absurd Man and Woman of the Year Awards. By bringing such luminaries as Liza Minelli, James Stewart and Paul Newman to Harvard, the boys at 12 Holyoke have arranged a can't miss mechanism geared to shower headlines on wheat and chaff alike...