Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most standards, Simone Weil was an absurd and unattractive woman. Almost constantly ailing, painfully humorless and so intense she was either irritating or ridiculous, she agonized through a short life of 34 years and died in 1943 in a gesture that seemed to typify her gift for futile heroics. She virtually starved herself to death in England by refusing, though she was weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime ration for her native France...
...politics; as a revolutionary fighter she deplored reliance on force. Yet today Simone Weil is looked upon by an increasing audience as one of the outstanding religious figures of her time.* In the current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, is a penetrating study of the "Saint of the Absurd" by Leslie A. Fiedler, associate professor of humanities at the University of Montana...
...years in Darmstadt, he went back to Ber lin as artistic administrator of the Municipal Theater. Ebert arrived the next year. The following year, 1933, all hands were summarily dismissed by the Nazis. Bing went home to Vienna, then to a tiny theater near Prague, where he helped produce "absurd" things, such as Figaro in modern dress...
Modern history has no more dramatic scene than Wu's speech at Lake Success. The world heard only by dim and dignified hearsay of Hitler raging at statesmen who came to Berchtesgaden; it saw only the absurd arrested motion of Hitler's triumphant jig in the Forest of Compiègne. Millions by television and radio saw & heard Wu spew forth Communism's unappeasable hatred, cloaked in Communism's lies and muscled by Communism's paranoid vocabulary of denunciation...
...Simont is poking fun at those strange, histrionic, and sometimes absurd people who live in the world of opera. In his 60 black and white pictures he points up the absurdities of nine French, German, and Italian operas. A proper sense of reverence pervades the entire gallery, however, and the result is that "Opera Souffle" is good-natured, excellent...