Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sharp verbal exchanges and dazzling wordplay. He and Watson make a fine team, both of them endearing in their pathetic plight. And but for a few swallowed lines, the supporting cast keeps the inspiring lunacy going at a quick, clever pace. Stoppard's stock of metaphysical puns and absurd rhetoric of despair flies so fast that they rarely become over-bearing. From all sides of the coin, a spirited showing for two of the Bard's interchangeable bit players...
Harvard President Derek C. Bok responded to Bennett's absurd accusations with some polemical remarks of his own. On the level of soapbox debate, Bok floored the Secretary with an even more formidable display of histrionics. While it is heartening that the President of Harvard can defend himself and his institution from peevish and petty assaults with great skill, Bok failed deal with the important issues that Bennett did raise despite himself. On these more substantive issues--teaching, advising and, to a lesser extent, the Core Curriculum--Bok issued the sort of conditioned, knee-jerk defense of Harvard that Bennett...
...absurd to say [the move] is not a resultof pressure," said Tina Smith '83, a member ofAlumni Against Aparthied...
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 labeled the House language "absurd" and asserted the military is "doing a very great deal" to fight drugs...
Last week Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger responded with understandable incredulity, describing the proposal as "pretty absurd." The Secretary emphasized the "historic separation of military and civilian activities that we've always had in our country, quite properly." He compared the House order to thwart drug trafficking in 1 1/2 months to the folly of King Canute, the 11th century monarch of England who, Weinberger said, "tried to order the tide not to come...