Word: absurder
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...understand why Americans love their sitcoms. The characters are all transparent, and the plots are utterly mundane. Most of the shows follow a hapless person through a never--ending series of embarrassing situation. Still, any attempts at absurd humor falls flat and is generally replaced by ludicrous slapstick...
...think that I have spent two of my three years at Harvard without seeing a face of color at the head of the room is unsettling. And experiencing some of the practical benefits that minority professors can provide makes the situation only more absurd. I applaud Harvard for its efforts to recruit these highly qualified faculty members, yet I stop short of saying that the University has done enough in this area. It's a nice start, but a little progress should be followed by more strides to transform both this student body and the faculty into true symbols...
...Robbins does offer the three most comfortable seats of all the Harvard libraries. Supple red leather wing chairs and matching ottomans are dangerously alluring. Other chairs in this library are ripped or shredded and do not match the abundant oak paneling. You many find this obsession with interior decorating absurd, but the best studying comes from a mind that is at peace with its environment. So there...
Rousseau's Dog is not meant to encourage spinoffs, or copycat theses. Kennedy warns that her method was suggested naturally by Rousseau's own thinking and should not be used as a widespread model: "It would be presumptuous and vaguely absurd of me to propose the dog as a new category for general use in feminist analysis: the last thing we need is another set of cumbersome and contested terms. I am far from suggesting that we should take up the question of Nietzsche's dog or Dostoevsky...
...seems absurd that security guards are kept on duty for the safer early evenings and are not present later when the greatest danger exists. A guard on duty at sunset would not seem to be as important as one in the middle of the night...