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Best to divert them with tales of double-800s who are happily attending state schools and absurd geographical diversity cases that make it into Harvard. They don't believe you, but it seems to make them feel better until the topic changes to sex, by which time only the special-interest partisans are left, and you lead them out into the humidity beyond the Yard for bitter-sweet chocolate ice cream
...stance will examine both its veracity and its implications, but first a superficial criticism: Professor Huntington devotes a good portion of the end of his book to justifying the sort of foreign policy that led to our involvement in Vietnam, a tortured agglomeration of Kirkpatrick-like nonsense and absurd historical claims. For example, he says that 1967, when 500,000 U.S. troops were in Indochina marked the "high point of democracy and political liberty in Vietnam." Clearly, Huntington labors under a simpleminded deception that confuses "elections" with freedom. Huntington is a brilliant man, like most of the men who, with...
...comforts his achievements easily afforded him, he never flaunted his wealth ($200 million at his death). Demanding in 1946 that his name be stricken from the Social Register, he said, "If you willingly go along with such a travesty of democracy as the Register, you tacitly subscribe to its absurd notions...
Ironically, then, nuclear power--one of the most sophisticated achievements of human intellect--survives because of short--sight-edness, dogmatic inertia, and the refusal to admit mistakes. The irony is cruel--not merely absurd--in light of the fear and bewilderment of people who live near places like Three Mile Island and Ginna, who realize that their safety is a pawn in a political game. Perhaps we may yet come to our senses and start closing down the 71 plants that stand like so many monuments to blind faith in technology and technocracy. But time is short, and the danger...
...ready smile and a sharp sense of the absurd. He learned that one of the White House servants, a robust woman of perhaps 190 lbs., believed in reincarnation, so he asked her what she wanted to be in her next life. A canary, she said wistfully. Roosevelt couldn't resist laughter. "I love it, I love it, I love it," he said. One of his most celebrated bits of clowning was his mock-solemn response to a Republican charge that he had accidentally left his Scotch terrier Fala behind on a trip to Alaska and then sent a destroyer...