Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heeled, philandering novelist. He lives in a wild part of Wales surrounded by "strange, Wagnerian scenery" and with the loud Atlantic roaring on his doorstep. He defies the Inspector (and shocks Harold) by traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and investing his money, his sacred money, in absurd companies...
...Another system which is not fully appreciated is listed below. With the aid of these lists, the reviewer simply picks the words which seem to fit...or just sound nice. for great movies for fair ones for the horrid sort splendid however insipid thrilling but incredible compelling heart warming absurd captivating headlong insulting uplifting perhaps bosomy driving money-maker for a dollar skilled Oscar candidate a woman in the back row insight for Broadway one eyed cameraman grandeur bad translation not since the Outlaw depth heavy a wounded swan real frantic a lead baloon disturbing stiff go over...
...that Good Men Do." In this book, that is also the theme of Roman Catholic Convert Greene. He saw the French debacle in Indo-China as correspondent for LIFE and the London Sunday Times. Out of Saigon, he wrote of the doomed Vietnamese, the touchy, defeatist French and their absurd allies like the Caodist "Pope," who had female cardinals and canonized Victor Hugo. Most significantly, he wrote in his diary: "Is there any solution here the West can offer? But the bar tonight was loud with innocent American voices, and that was the worst disquiet...
...William J. Fordrung, professor of Physiology at Hunter for over 25 years, called the book "the lowest type of secularistic thinking," and said that Fletcher's conclusions were "indelicate and absurd." He asserted that the volume is an example of "the fuzzy thinking so prevalent in many academic circles at present [which] is vehemently gauged to destroy all morality...
...because it is so detailed-and the dreadful, slow, image-spawning of their literal minds . . . One can see that, in Joyce's imitators, the interior monologue was a blow for democracy, a rather dreary one; the fact that we all have a garrulous unconscious that is occupied with absurd free associations, wipes out differences of character and status, for Jack's drooling is as good as his master...