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...title of Vaclav Havel's "The Increased Difficulty of Concentration" alone suggests that it is a difficult play to stage, leaning heavily towards the meta-physical and absurd. The play, deeply colored with irony and deadpan humor, offers at its core a vague but haunting presentation of the meaninglessness of modern life The production of director Ron Avni '97 is an admirable attempt to capture all this frenzied complexity, but is too often overwhelmed by the scope and obscurity of the text...
While it seems a bit absurd to us that the percentage of council money that goes to student groups and house committees must be debated and passed every year, this is clearly not the most important issue at stake. The argument over the referendum transcends the mere transfer of a couple of percentage points from one Undergraduate Council fund to another. At stake here is the students' voice in their government...
...kind of incidents cops deal with, the officers say, range from the exciting to the benign, to the absurd...
...took a long time for them to get back to us," says Joshua D. Powe '98, treasurer of the Black Students Association. "I think it was about five weeks before we heard from them, which I thought was frankly absurd...
...homosexual lifestyle is a second issue, and one to which I would also like to respond. Living in a morally pluralistic society, we need to allow various belief systems the space to operate and exist. McFadden compares the "right" to practice sodomy with the "right" to play checkers, an absurd comparison on many levels. Expressions of sexuality are essential aspects of our human lives, and there are as many different kinds of expression as there are humans...