Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offstage a solemn and fastidious artist who speaks seven languages and boasts an honorary Ph.D., The Great Grock spent hours and years polishing and perfecting the details of his performance. But he never tampered with its essential ingredients, which were as simple and absurd as life itself: a tiny fiddle produced from a monstrous case, the almost miraculous discovery that it is easier to push a stool toward a piano than it is to push a piano toward a stool, his look of ecstatic appreciation at a single sour musical note produced all by himself. In such endless re-enactment...
...national Catholic weekly, America, the shop's manager, who uses the pen name .Margaret Montgomery, tells of this and scores of similar incidents she experienced in a "profession . . . where the sublime and the ridiculous dwell together in an absurd, often unholy . . . union." Among her examples...
...supply stores that ring the church of St.-Sulpice in Paris' Latin Quarter. The figures invariably have red and blue garments with gold and silver borders, and piously uptilted blue or brown eyes. As decoration they may be innocuous, but as objects of veneration they are absurd...
Then, in a letter to his belligerent Vice President, Mr. Eisenhower informed Mr. Nixon that he "can find no words to express my deep appreciation of the contribution you have made" to the campaign. Considered in the light of his springtime pronouncement, such a statement is absurd. It only points out that President Eisenhower has even less control over his party now than the very little that he has shown in the past...
Balancing these two prose sketches is The Purification, a verse play which offers the only real chance for experimental work. Williams, in combining wild imagery, a guitar player, and a chorus, has attempted to give unwarranted significance to absurd instance of human frailty. Set in the western deserts, the play takes the form of a trial in which incest and murder provide the basis for quantities of poetry...