Word: absurder
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...this short life, Albert Camus had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature and produced a compact body of novels (The Stranger, The Plague), plays (Caligula) and philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus) that both defined and helped create a 20th century temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds for doing so. Camus seemed to embody the laconic stoicism of his works. He was reserved in public; in many of his photographs, he looked the way Camus should look, a slender, dark, intense Bogart type, a tough guy betrayed...
Having documented the problem, my main concern was to get the ballots to a secure location. I was tempted to simply take them to a proctor myself, but I feared that might expose me to absurd allegations, even with The Crimson there as a witness. I telephoned Mr. Liston at home, instead, and pleaded with him to come to the office and escort the ballot box, with me, to the proctor who had agreed to take them. Unfortunately, he refused. I asked him at that time why he had backed out of the arrangement we had made, and he stated...
...dare to test the troubled waters of politics often find that their ethnicity hinders, rather than helps them with their own people. The Asian community is in many ways segregated within itself between individual countries. The Koreans hold grudges against the Chinese who feel the Vietnamese are absurd...
...chosen indirect involvement through NATO and the U.N. The result? Rather than harness awesome American air power (on display only three years ago in the Gulf War) to a coherent campaign to do something significant about Serb advances, the U.S. allows its air force to become the instrument of absurd power struggles among U.N. officials in Bosnia...
...Totally absurd. All the streak means is that the Braves will win 110 games instead of 114. They might only have two Cy Young candidates instead of three...