Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision was "an important pronouncement of principle," Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, said last night, "but there are questions of very difficult administration. It seems we've made an important commitment, but it's absurd to think that racial prejudice is over...
...they] are automatically against it. Despite the social teachings of the church, and the labor of many devoted Catholics, clerical and lay, there is not much doubt that in many Catholic groups opposition to labor unions, public housing, slum clearance . . . interracial justice and the like is due to this absurd use of Communism as a negative determinant of what Catholics favor...
...English department have a great respect for Bate which is not entirely academic. Says one of the English tutors, 'With his keen, very enthusiastic opinions on many authors and problems in the whole field of English, I am always surprised by his readiness to listen to the most absurd idea. Even when that idea is pressed in heated discussion, Bate will not lose his temper, as subjective as he may feel about the given subject...
...good pieces returns to the old, sorry norm. "His Object All Sublime' is a thinly veiled parody of a local figure. Besides not being especially funny, it's taste is questionable. And "The Future of Shakespeare at Harvard" revolves on the worn theory that the verbose extension of an absurd idea is uproariously funny...
Even though these subsidies have been realized, it is absurd to talk in terms of huge losses to the taxpayers. The government guaranty service was not free; builders were charged 1/2% of the mortgage principal to ease the federal risk. Many 608 projects have paid off. As in any insurance undertaking, the good bets have helped to cover the bad ones...