Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behavior. Thus the crime rate among Blacks can be cured like an illness. Again and again, cures for Black pathologies are discovered, then destroyed. But Bell is doing more than laying bare the hypocrisy of whites who blame the victims. By harping on the analogy of disease as an absurd explanation for Black behavior, he makes the unstated point that it is whites who are stricken with a disease: racism. Ultimately, it is they who must be cured. And, Bell seems to be saying, only Blacks...
...buddy, this is absurd. I'm late for class, my pimple hurts, just give me anything. I'll even take an entry level position...
DAVID E. Sullivan and his following have offered few reasons for continuing rent control to the non-needy--reasons ranging from the absurd to the blatantly self-interested. Supporters say that the law was instituted to protect rental units, not the people who live in them...
This Sullivan argues that rent control imposes hard and often absurd burdens on small landlords, and he supports a system of "vacancy decontrol," which would allow an owner to stop renting a controlled apartment after the tenant left. Supporters of the current system, however, say David J.'s proposal would both reduce the housing stock and encourage landlords to use devious means of getting tenants to move...
...wisdom of academia, taught in all the better universities to young armies of new historians, who dismiss most of the traditions of political and cultural history as elitist, impressionistic and irrelevant. History as a narrative study of great men and great events? Obsolete. History as a branch of literature? Absurd...