Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the ups and downs in the lives of Leander's two sons, who find that their gentle mother and vigorous father have not exactly prepared them for the world beyond St. Botolphs. Lastly, it is a book peppered with ribald good humor and peopled by some absurd zanies...
...little do they realize that the choice is actually one of the more insignificent ones they will have to make, and that the bases on which they make it will probably be absurd anyway...
...seems patently absurd to assume that, if there really as a "best" house, they will be able to pick it out with any degree of accuracy. This can be seen in the fact that generations of freshmen have been unable to agree on the most desirable house, and that every year or so a new house is on the top of the popularity list...
...rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer of a name that still inspires respect in Japan, rode in an imperial household coach to the royal palace, there presented his papers to his uncle's good friend, Emperor Hirohito...
...nominal plot is so trite as to be absurd: our hero is a professor who has flunked the football hero before the big game, and our problem is whether or not pressure will force him to recant his decision. Personal factors complicate this moral issue, however, and thus save the book from its anticipated collapse...