Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barnhart, this "historical" method in an ordinary desk dictionary seems absurd. A bank, says he, is not first of all "the table or counter of a moneychanger" as Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary lists it. In Barnhart's book, it is "an institution for keeping, lending, exchanging, and issuing money...
Rene Vielman is extraordinarily small for a breaststroker. This handicap, coupled with pluck which enables him to finish up with a rush long after every spectator is sure he has burned himself out, has made him the favorite of his teammates. It would be absurd to expect him to reach the Yale meet undefeated, but neither Ulen nor Vielman's teammates would be surprised...
...using about every angle to an absurd situation, the producers of "The Happiest Days of Your Life" made a consistently amusing movie, if not a side-shaking one. The absurd situation in this movie is caused by a mistake in the (British) Ministry of Education, which assigns the one hundred girls of St. Swithin's School to the Nutbourne College for Boys...
...teachers, who declined to be identified, believed that there was an ethical question involved. They considered it was "absurd for people with such big salaries to take pensions that are susually meant for poorer people." Those men also forsaw a chinta reaction, "if we adopt this plan, so will others who are even higher paid...
Comedy becomes slapstick, courage becomes arrant braggadocio, and even the celebrated nose assumes absurd proportions under Ferrer's touch. He forgets that the one extreme about which Cyrano's character revolves is that of unswerving devotion to a personal code of honor. By removing this one characteristic of universal appeal from Cyrano, Ferrer has also taken away the element of audience self-identification, perhaps the most important aspect of the play. This is not to say that Ferrer's acting is not often superb. It is. In the balcony and convent scenes, he extracts the utmost from Rostand's brilliant...