Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some absurd hour in the early morning, she is awakened. The technique used for this cruel intrusion will vary. It may be a thermometer inserted in her mouth, a pitcher of ice water placed on her table, or orders to get washed and readied for a breakfast which commonly arrives an hour or two later. Any attempt to snatch a brief rest during the remainder of the day is likely to end in disappointment due to the parade of the VIPs, who so space their visits that there is never an idle moment: the baby, the nurse, the nurse...
...concluded the statement saying he was charged by the West as being a communist and accused by Russia of being a secret agent of the West. "These charges are equally absurd and false...
...demand that the CRIMSON apologize to 1) Professor Allport and Mr. Riecken for the false statements it made about them; 2) to the Social Relations Department for making the absurd suggestion that there might be "retaliation" against students furnishing unfavorable information about the Department; 3) to me for its unscrupulous tactics in using the leads I gave in good faith for sensationalist purposes in violation of the promise that it made to me. The CRIMSON has a fine tradition behind it; I do not wish to see it degenerate into a yellow sheet to which no one can make confidential...
...Mind" have a weird, inhuman aspect, Jean Dubuffet is not surprised. He is convinced that "art has much to do with madness." He hopes that his paintings contain many "facts" foreign to the objects he intends to represent, and he is happy "even when these facts are delirious or absurd...
...Literature," wrote Max Beerbohm, "has many a solemn masterpiece that one would without a qualm barter for that absurd and riotous one." In society, as in print, Gilbert began to establish himself as a formidable zany. When asked, for instance, if he had "seen a member of this club with one eye called Matthews," Gilbert shot back: "What's his other eye called?" He turned this compulsion for dialogue to the writing of plays, and was already the leading comic writer of the London stage when he was introduced to Sullivan...