Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise if you opened the newspaper at the breakfast table to read the headline: "A Solution For World Hunger". To anybody with even a little knowledge about the Middle East, the title of Jonathan M. Moses's column "A Solution for Israel" (January 20), could not but seem equally absurd. To anybody who read further, the article could not but seem misguided to boot...
...Absurd, because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is far too complex to be solved over a cup of coffee. To name just a few of the factual difficulties with Moses's neat litle four-point plan...
...earned at least that much in negative press with the ticket hike and with last September's shuttering of the Regency, the city's treasured revival house. There was a rally and a petition with 30,000 signers. To Drabinsky, the protesters were "publicity seekers" and their pleas "absurd." He plans to showcase revivals at a smaller midtown theater. "We made the Regency a lot newer, and it will gross almost four times as much in its first year." Not a man to be convinced that the Regency was the stuff that dreams are played in. The visionary showman sounds...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangles in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...