Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three. "The principal merit of painting," he once wrote, "is its address to the mind." Because he continually asserted his conviction that most other British painters were mindless, they expelled him from the Royal Academy. They also took great satisfaction in sneering at his half-mystical allegories and his absurd Death of General Wolfe (in which all the figures were shown classically nude...
Twice in every 1,000 births, some unhappy mother finds that she has borne a child suffering from an affliction which has been misnamed "Mongolian idiocy." In the 85 years since mongolism was defined, authorities have disagreed widely as to its cause. No speculation seemed too absurd. Mongolism, said some, looking at the slanted eyes of its victims, was racial evidence of "the Mongol in our midst." Others, more responsible, argued that it was caused by "advanced maternal age," exhaustion of the womb, ovarian disorders, an upset gland (any gland would do) or, finally, heredity...
...Bailey would have us believe that the team deliberately tossed away its chance to go to the Bowl just to spite Mr. Bierman. This is at best absurd, and at its worst an insulting...
...kind of modesty when he boasted of his brilliance and genius; because (if it can be put this way) brilliance and genius were all he had. And he knew their nature: he had the penetrating comic genius. He was expert, as the comic genius is, in absurd juxtapositions and non sequiturs. His prose is made of sentences which have less and less to do with the preceding ones; each is a fresh beginning, fresh with new, vivid effrontery and traveling away from the point, like the words of an incurable but dazzling talker who is intoxicated by his own flow...
...measures at this time is surprising. The Administrative Board has already decided that partial or "cumulative" credits are not now a necessity, no doubt figuring that Selective Service will not be calling many men out of College except at the end of a term or year. It therefore seems absurd to link the return to mid-term grades to any string of crucial war measures today...