Word: absurdes
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...this delicious collection of personality flaws, twentysomething sophomore author Michael Chabon contructs a wildly comic, manically paced novel, combining slapstick comedy and a clever satire of academia with an ongoing meditation on the peculiar life of the writer. Chabon's light touch allows him to present the most absurd situations, and the most open sentimentality, without a trace of awkwardness...
Considering that Auschwitz is the distillation of all that is evil in mankind, the result is a volume of grotesque moral confusion. The very intent of the book--to bring the Holocaust to seven-year-olds without being depressing--is absurd, and so Celebrations becomes the reductio ad absurdum of this genre of young people's realism: at once confused, dishonest, disturbing and false...
Leyner combines a mastery of both language and absurd imagery, barely giving his readers time to recover between...
...retirement age is already scheduled to rise very slowly, to 67 by 2027. Many think it should be boosted faster, and to age 70. "It is absurd to keep the same retirement age as when life expectancy was 10 to 15 years lower," says economist Friedman--still active as a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution at the age of 82. It is also very expensive to prompt people to retire at what now seems to be an early age and collect pensions rather than pay taxes that might finance others' pensions for a vital five years...
...ignore the difference in quality between Beethoven and `Gangsta Rap' is absurd. All one can do is feel pity for those who don't appreciate the difference in artistic value between a masterpiece and a urinal. One can also feel saddened by the fact that very little great art is being produced today because of the spread of post-modernist philosophy...