Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparently Rossellini is correct in charging that most of the scenes explaining this conversion lie on the floor of the RKO cutting room. Certainly as it stands now, her conversion is one of the most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth...
Since all this is a moral problem, said Murdock, he thought that his views should be dealt with by society's moral leaders, the clergy. "No doubt it seems absurd to think of the clergy as leading a movement to relax a standard of sexual morality ... I remind you, however, that it was the Protestant clergy who brought about the first great sexual reform of modern times by attacking and reversing the restrictive taboo of ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation...
...STRANGE ERROR CREPT INTO YOUR REPORT OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS'S SERMON IN ST. PAUL'S [TIME, JAN. 16]. ACCORDING TO STORY ["VOICES IN THE EXCHEQUER"], NEWSMAN ASKED ABOUT ABSURD RUMOR THAT CRIPPS HEARS DIVINE VOICES, AND CRIPPS REPLIED...