Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT REALLY MAKES Doubting Thomas worthwhile, however, despite the wild and morbid humor and the absurd plot twists, is its skillful portrayal of the academic world. Reeves, himself a Harvard graduate student for many years, gets to the heart of the academic quandary and the dark depths of faculty polities with more than a little humor...
Ziff Corp. calls CBS's charges "absurd." Says William Ziff Jr., chairman of the company's executive committee: "I am appalled. I am angry." The courts will decide whose ire is justified...
They have sugar coated it, spoken of a new era, apologized for it, offered incentives anything to make the student body believes in a body that is as absurd as it is odious...
THAT LIFE IS patently absurd is an accepted fact of modern times. What else can explain the statement by a president of the United States claiming that the Soviet Union was feeding its population a starvation diet of sawdus...
...HOLOCAUST survivor Elie Wiesel so eloquently told him directly on Saturday, Reagan has made many mistakes this week. And his statement last week that he cannot change plans now because he would lose face is absurd. The President in fact missed the ideal opportunity to gain tremendous approval from Americans and others, when Wiesel appealed to him publicly to alter his plans, and on humanitarian grounds avoid Bitburg. Rather than seeming weak, he would in fact have hammered home one of his most cherished points: that he is a President with compassion, a human being with a real respect...