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Lisa Newman, a psychiatric social worker in Toronto, thinks that some survivors have not been able to pass on a coherent value system to their children, because their ordeal under the Nazis was so absurd. "People survived, not for anything they did, but only because of someone's whim. That undermines your faith in your own actions having a sensible outcome, or a sense of a universe that...
Editor Ann Hobin called the charges "absurd" and said the University was censoring the newspaper...
Bobby Bourne, a lanky winger from Kindersley, Saskatoon, who wanted to play baseball when he grew up, ended a game best described as absurd when he intercepted a Terry O'Reilly clearing pass and blasted a slapshot past goaltender Gerry Cheevers from 60 feet out after only 1:24 of sudden-death...
...times, The Candidates--1980 strays into the self-indulgent and the absurd. No self-respecting author would quote articles from The American Spectator at length and then reveal--several times, in fact--that he wrote them. But then again, the man who wrote this book boasts that he has been published in international editions of Reader's Digest. There are numerous factual errors; on a list of obstacles that stand between the candidates and the conventions, Bakshian overlooks the New York primary. Where Bakshian is at his best--conversational, witty, on target--he is quoting liberally from people who really...
...Specials effort, Dammers promises a little more experimentation and a wider range of styles, even speculates in a bemused fashion on a possible wedding of ska, reggae and "lift music - the stuff you hear in America in McDonald's and department stores. It's so absurd." Step back, watch the closing doors. Going...