Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...logic of the absurd, Kepesh is a huge success-a post-Freudian wonder who no longer needs to adjust to civilization's discontents. As he comes to realize this, he assumes the arrogance of the chosen and decides to milk his uniqueness for all the pleasure and celebrity it is worth. "This, my friend," he cries, "is the Land of Opportunity in the Age of Self-Fulfillment, and I am David Alan Kepesh, the Breast, and I will live by my own light!" Visions of big money and fame join his fantasies...
...refuses to send children with red hair to school, the genes that cause red hair can be said to lower reading scores. This does not tell us that children with red hair cannot learn to read. Attributing red heads' illiteracy to their genes would probably strike most readers as absurd under these circumstances. yet that is exactly what traditional methods of estimating heritability...
...Peter some time in the 9th century. Surely, however, the legend could not have been as turgid or as invincibly dull as the film that has been fashioned from it. The film makers, making a wild scramble for contemporary relevance, have chosen to frame the story with a singularly absurd yarn about a schizoid evangelist (also portrayed by Miss Ullmann) who believes she is Pope Joan. "Classic case of withdrawal," mutters Psychiatrist Keir Dullea, peering at her through huge spectacles...
...clerk was busted for selling Zap Comics. Before the last hearing, though, the clerk was killed in a motorcycle accident. "So," said Ferlinghetti, "I thought the case had been dismissed." Two days later, the case actually was dismissed, leaving the poet free but still fuming. "It was an absurd incident," he declared. "We might sue the city just on principle...
Died. Paul Goodman, 60, maverick social theorist whose bestselling Growing Up Absurd attacked societal foundations and became a handbook for the alienated young (see EDUCATION...