Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know what the purpose of this Coffee Hour discussion was. If it was to offer a forum for the discussion of possible improvements of the grading system, no worthwhile student criticism seemed to be presented. At least all student suggestions were absurd (especially those involving any significant changes) and were dismissed as such...
...attempt to sell down the river our most precious heritage, our religious freedom," protested Episcopalian Dr. James A. Pike, Dean of the New York Cathedral (St. John the Divine). It is motivated, he added, by "fear of friction with Spain, which is so financially dependent upon us it is absurd." Thundered the National Association of Evangelicals: "An affront to all true Protestants." Flustered by the outcry, the Pentagon called an urgent conference of State Department and Air Force brass and tried to soothe everyone. The agreement has not yet been signed, said General Kissner, and when it is, it "would...
...this the sum total of Byron's character, it would present no puzzle: any zoo attendant could tumble to it. In fact the monster was a mere segment of it. Women rarely saw the better side of Byron, but to his men friends, the devilish Byron seemed an absurd joke, a mere poetic fantasy. They sat at his feet, bowed to his charm, reveled in the humor and radiance he shed. Their descriptions of him are mostly levelheaded and carry a ring of conviction. Wrote Sir Walter Scott: "I found Lord Byron in the highest degree courteous, and even...
Violence Without Conscience. An anxious and concerned public, Lindner says, has received from the "experts" only absurd theories and warmed-over nostrums...
...that letters to El Caribe are the Benefactor's way of informing the public about the current state of public demand, read avidly on for more clues. At last came a letter that not only seconded the creation of a vice-presidency, but significantly added that it was "absurd to deny high office to deserving Dominicans merely on the ground of youth." Nowadays, the letter explained, "young Dominicans get from their Maximum Leader . . . incomparable intellectual preparation." And that led to a logical conclusion: the minimum age for the vice-presidency, and the presidency, too, ought to be lowered from...