Word: absurder
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...hero spends most of his time masturbating. The Russian, however, finds an ingenious way to turn his obsession into a cushy government job when a Soviet laboratory purchases his prodigious production of spermatozoa for the greater glory of Communist science. In Kangaroo the author satirizes the false and often absurd confessions that were made at show trials during the Stalin era. Here an engaging professional crook admits to the rape of the oldest kangaroo in the Moscow...
...mannerisms and reactions are too stiff and blatant. He gapes to show he's shocked, shouts to show he's angry. He fails to convey Tyrone's appealing undercurrent of charm, or any of his amusing qualities. When he pontificates to Edmund about wasting electricity, only permitting one absurd bulb to be lit, Walker seems so serious, so genuinely frantic, the underlying humor does not come through...
...time. Fantastic allegations about the Soviet Union's ambitions for "world supremacy" and "a world Communist government" may only lead the cause of international intercourse and cooperation into a dangerous deadlock. The hue and cry about "international terrorism" allegedly being masterminded by the Soviet Union is just as absurd...
...Newark. When we consider the toll exacted by the persistence of high unemployment (and underemployment) and the tragic fact that many Blacks, frustrated by failure, have simply stopped looking for work, the "cultural argument that Black family instability and unwed pregnancy are unrelated to external factors seems quite absurd indeed...
...preserving this student and from ROTC. The most obvious solution would be for the military to fund its own programs. At a time when the Federal commitment to higher education is declining, student aid programs are being cut, and funds for the Pentagon are ever-increasing, it is absurd that the Faculty should be asked to divert some of its funds to a non-academic military program such as ROTC. There are many organizations which offer benefits to Harvard students. But some, such as final clubs and ROTC, are not open to all qualified students and thus are not deserving...