Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two presidents of the board, with Bok's implicit and in some cases expressed endorsement, have forced Overseers to operate in a closed, privatized manner. A democratic competition among members will help to open up and to enliven the proceedings, hampering absurd efforts to shut out an interested public...
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 entangled 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...
...National Security Council, only a benign advisory appendage to 10 Downing Street known as the Cabinet Office. Insists Field Marshal Lord Bramall, a former Chief of the General Staff: "The idea of a bunch of military cowboys running their own foreign policy out of the Cabinet Office is too absurd to contemplate." On the Continent, a widespread feeling exists that if anything like Iranscam were uncovered, it would not have the same paralyzing repercussions. Throughout much of Europe, especially across the Latin, Catholic southern tier, there is greater cynicism about political conduct...
...study is grossly flawed and inaccurate. The republication charge is absurd. The relationship between my two studies is indicated in the opening paragraph of the second article," he said yesterday. "Many of the errors they cite are not errors at all and others were trivial or typographical mistakes...