Word: absurdes
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...economy in a lamentable straitjacket if it could be enforced. For it to be considered at all by a President and Congress that have just finished running up a record deficit that probably totaled $110 billion in fiscal 1982 is an exercise in the politics of the absurd...
...publishers have the right to print anything they want is no excuse to ignore other possible ways of protecting society's potentially suicidal readers. Firmly supporting freedom of the press is irreproachable, but insisting that this right, unlike all other value judgments, must be exercised in a vacuum is absurd. Efforts to control Suicide indirectly--like the vigorous efforts of French groups to pass laws punishing suicide "accomplices" are simply essential in keeping scrutiny of the question alive. There is no point in being doctrinaire about such power...
...eccentricities. It is easier to visualize him making faces than walking in the door. I think only someone with no imagination can imagine him." One would like to read this as an equivalent to Mozart's A Musical Joke or dialogue from the theater of the absurd. In fact, the German-born author, 66, is best known as a painter and playwright with an intellectual kinship to Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco...
...Townshend is not content to tackle only the timeless problems of human relationships and suffering. He deals also with the here and now, with issues directly relevant to our generation. In "I've Known No War," Townshend decries the absurd prospect of nuclear annihilation with more than just a touch of irony...
...program is not closed down, but the Army has made it so inconvenient it's absurd," campus ROTC advisor John Zornig said. Zornig, an associate professor of electrical engineering, serves as a major in the Army Reserve...