Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the future, Cherington maintained that an effective world government will not be possible for a long time to come--"only when the Russian government has been completely transformed from its present state. Right now world federalism is palpably absurd; it would be like an alliance between the 13 Colonies and imperial Spain...
Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, welcomed the new amendment because, he said, "an executive can get too strong and destroy the balance of power." On the other hand, Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, labeled the statute "grotesque, lamentable, and absurd...
...Walter White, 69, who helped set off the sensational "monkey trial" of John T. Scopes in Dayton, Tenn. in 1925; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Superintendent of Schools White agreed with Scopes, high school biology teacher in Dayton, that the state's law against teaching evolution was absurd. To get it annulled, Scopes stood trial for teaching the doctrine, White swore out the warrant. As Lawyer Clarence Darrow (for evolution) and William Jennings Bryan (against it) argued, the issue of intellectual freedom v. bigotry caught the interest of the world. Scopes lost, was fined $100. The fine...
...glossing over the ideas and doctrines which constitute the Jewish heritage [is] both illogical and unintelligent. If you believe that the Jewish religion can be prettied up into a modern mixture of Freud and Jefferson and kid yourself into calling your fancy synthesis Judaism (as was done in that absurd book, Peace of Mind), then I suppose nobody can prevent you; but don't then sneer at assimilationists-they are at least honest about what they are doing...
...streetear named Leehmere--via--Subway goes astray, the Watch and Ward detective deals with a mean-eyed gun-toting John Marquand, and, to get out of Bostonian non-health and into condition, panting Lowels trip over puffing Sedgwicks on their morning run around Boston Common. The latter situations are absurd, unlike the "Draft Chart," they are not absurd extensions of existing situations, but attempts at created, impossible absurdity, like Thurber's seal-in-the-bedroom. Such attempts constitute excellent humor when they succeed. These...