Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right up to the dramatic climax of President Arbenz' forced resignation, the war in Guatemala was a strange, onesided air war, fought by three mysterious F47 Thunderbolts and an absurd little Cessna sports plane, all under the command of the leader of the anti-Communist rebels, Colonel Castillo Armas...
...Russia, pleading political naivete in one breath and distress over international political repercussions of hydrogen development in the other. The committee that judged him was, to say the least, kind. No one, I think, would question his lack of enthusiasm by itself. To separate this issue is to me absurd. McCarthy's defense seems to me based directly on the congressional right to investigate "failure to act" by the executive. The question of motive makes comparison ridiculous. Mr. Oppenheimer's motives were entirely questionable . . . Until it becomes more obvious to me that the people have awakened...
...large, economy-size B-flat bass (29 Ibs., 387 in.), which is often worn somewhat like a life preserver and mostly goes oompah. One thing that tuba players have in common is a fear that audiences are laughing at them. To many nonmusicians, indeed, the tuba appears absurd -there is always some fellow in the audience who hopes to see a pair of pigeons flutter wildly out of the bell at first blast...
Professor Morison spoke before MacLeish. The distinguished historian charged his colleagues "to avoid acts, or associations that will bring our university into difficulties; to observe a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, even when these opinions of mankind, even when these opinions are erroneous and absurd; and above all, to avoid an attitude of smug superiority--the unforgivable sin in a democratic society...
Author De Vries, a writer for The New Yorker, has an acute sense of the absurd and an absurd way of being acute. He has written an amusing, screwball farce. Its moral: vice, in its mysterious ways, may lead a man to virtue- and virtue may lead him to the brink of calamity...