Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massachusetts' political realities currently support a one-party or perhaps a party-and-a-half system. Only the historically powerful Democratic Party seems able to carry on its business without absurd blunders that leave it more of a laughingstock than a political force...
...during the Reagan era. In many ways it reflects society's ambivalence, mixing some moderate views about the rights of individuals with some visceral moralizing about pornography and promiscuity. Says the commission: "There are undoubtedly many causes for what used to be called the 'sexual revolution,' but it is absurd to suppose that depictions or descriptions of uncommitted sexuality were not among them." At times the report hesitantly departs from an examination of pornography and discusses the need for a moral compass in society. "We all agree that some degree of individual choice is necessary in any free society...
...first place, White points out, it would be impossible to tolerate sodomy without also permitting other sexual crimes, such as incest. This analogy is absurd. There is a vast difference between protecting minors from conduct harmful to them and interfering with the decisions of consenting adults...
...blacks was "right and should be reaffirmed." Questioned about this at his confirmation hearings in 1971, Rehnquist insisted that he was expressing the Justice's views, not his own. But University of Chicago Law School Professor Dennis Hutchinson, who is writing a biography of Jackson, calls Rehnquist's explanation "absurd." Jackson always instructed his clerks to express their own views, not his, says Hutchinson. Last year Rehnquist stated that he now believes that the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision Brown vs. Board of Education outlawing school segregation is correct, but added, "I think there was a perfectly reasonable argument...
...joke is that, despite the magical aura that surrounds the Harvard undergraduate four years, education is for many here a quite mundane and even cynical experience. Harvard's undergraduate program may not be as laughably absurd as Brown's but neither is it as wonderful as we would like...