Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost four months after his nomination to the Supreme Court, John Marshall Harlan is still spending most of his afternoons before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, instead of filling the vacant ninth place in the Court building. He has been detained, unfortunately, by questioning that daily grows more absurd and insidious...
Such objections are, of course, patently absurd. They are the same type of irresponsible charges that a year and a half ago delayed Senate confirmation of Chief Justice Earl Warren. At the hearings on Harlan's nomination, however, there has arisen a new kind of attack, far more subtle and dangerous than the usual obviously judicious nomince, in effect, just how he would vote on various cases which might come before...
Snapped the left-wing Combat: "This absurd regime dishonors France, submits her to ridicule abroad, and is pushing her toward catastrophe." Man for man, few legislatures can equal the men of the French Assembly for wit, eloquence and intelligence. Many of its leaders are honored veterans of the French Resistance. Why are these courageous men unable, despite themselves, to give France a stable government? The answer is simple, but not helpful: France is deeply distrustful of a strong government. Too frequently and too recently, Frenchmen have had to man the barricades against oppression. Since 1789 France has lived under four...
...existentialists believe that when they die, they will die altogether: but they argue that precisely because man has no God to look after him, no Heaven to look forward to and no way of escaping death, he is so much the greater, because his hope and courage light the absurd void to which he is condemned. Mortal man, in fact, is forever alive, whereas immortal Count Fosca, who has lost all hope, is really as dead as a doornail. FREEDOM is SLAVERY, said Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four. LIFE is DEATH, say the gloomier among the existentialists...
...whether absurd suggestions or not, they were rather varied, whereas the counsel for the faculty seemed quite united in their contention that whatever is is about the best that can be done. The expertise of Mr. Toepfer was not subject to review; and the wit of Mr. Seavey was already res judicata. With appropriate moderation by faculty counsel during the course of the discussion, judgment for the faculty seemed to be a foregone conclusion...