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...with Gilbert). Also ahead of us though are Cibula, Smith, Davenport and Yang--four undergraduate playwrights getting their scripts produced. These particular plays are difficult to classify, ranging from Sweet Sins, a drama about domestic violence to A Nite-Lite, which the Common Casting pamphlet describes only as, "Urban. Absurd. Harsh. Ludicrous. Surprising. Possible...
...PRACTICAL purposes, students and alumni do not entertain ideas of dominating proceedings of the faculties of requiring approval for regular administrative decisions. To suggest such broad powers is absurd. But this country's foremost intellectual community deserves to be treated, as...well...an intellectual community. As the community considers the ideas and concepts of the modern world it ought to have the ability to consider such concepts as they relate to the University it sponsors. The ethics of investments, policies on unionization, treatment of junior faculty, the joint pressures of teaching and research and relations with the Cambridge community...
...past two presidents of the board, with Bok's implicit and in some cases expressed endorsement, have forced Overseers to operate in a closed, privatized manner. A democratic competition among members will help to open up and to enliven the proceedings, hampering absurd efforts to shut out an interested public...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...National Security Council, only a benign advisory appendage to 10 Downing Street known as the Cabinet Office. Insists Field Marshal Lord Bramall, a former Chief of the General Staff: "The idea of a bunch of military cowboys running their own foreign policy out of the Cabinet Office is too absurd to contemplate." On the Continent, a widespread feeling exists that if anything like Iranscam were uncovered, it would not have the same paralyzing repercussions. Throughout much of Europe, especially across the Latin, Catholic southern tier, there is greater cynicism about political conduct...