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...just did when I said 'subjective reality.' " Adler takes the idea a step further. "Let me give you an example of an erroneous statement: There are three mountains on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more than 5,000 feet high." The students laugh at such an absurd notion. Poking the same index finger on the table, Adler draws the distinction precisely. "A lie," he says, "is the difference between what you say and what you think; an erroneous statement is the difference between what you think and what there...
...world economy to an asset that represents such a small part of the total monetary system is really impossible. You could as well stabilize the world economy on the cabbage standard. It is absurd." Adds the Fed's Schultz: "You have to get inflation down before you link the dollar with any commodity. Otherwise there will be turbulence and disruption as the real value of the dollar erodes and people demand their gold...
...upsetting to see people do immature things, like tear down posters, carve on walls, knock down stakes in the Yard, write on tables. I had thought Harvard would be a cut above, but I learned people are just human. It's hard to accept, and a little absurd to be destroving things when the same people 20 years from now will be giving money to Harvard, if their parents aren't already. It's not what I expected. The Marines would never have put up with that crap...
Perhaps the greatest recent example of absurd University intransigience was its refusal last month to adopt a code explicitly promising not to discriminate against gay students. The Faculty Council was unable to find evidence of discrimination. What the Council did do was inform a large--and repeatedly harrassed--segment of the University population that the administration is unconcerned about their situation. In much the same way, Harvard has not taken the concrete steps it should to begin to solve the problems of race relations on campus...
...know we're not in Kansas anymore. As thorough in his evocation of an Unreal City as both T.S. Eliot and Franz Kafka, Fellini creates an action-painting so surrealistic, so whirling, and so blinding that the ringing of an unseen telephone in several scenes seems an inexplicable and absurd reminder of everyday life...