Word: absurdes
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...well, and Charlie and Mortimer were, after all, only puppets. If the world were a wholly rational place, their claims on it would be small. But the fact is they do make claims, and strong ones. Kermit, rueful and dithered frees a part of our own natures so absurd and defenseless that we would never let a human actor hold it in his hands. This freedom is wonderful, but there is a price What these puppets mean to the millions of people who have watched them is al most embarrassing to express, because the feeling they evoke is nothing less...
...Harvard student I felt that I have to write you and express my opinion. I am a 20-year old woman who is enraged by your recent refusal to print a Playboy ad for models in the Harvard Crimson. I consider your refusal to be absurd, puritanical and sexist...
...course it isn't, and so of course the headlines began screaming again soon enough: Guyana, Leo Ryan, Jim Jones. Then George Moscone, and sanity and structure gave way to the theater of the absurd. Nothing profound, naturally--simply a reminder that the neat little island remains surrounded by a world that knows and cares little about the gentilities of life in Cambridge...
...participating in any way in the production of Playboy assures the Crimson that it will not have any influence whatsoever on the magazine's editorial content on a national level. (The idea that The Crimson could ever exert a positive influence on the content of Playboy is, of course, absurd.) On a local level, our running subscription ads from Playboy may influence a small number of people at Harvard to buy the magazine. Although it is a difficult decision, we are confident that whatever harm may be done on a local level due to the subscription ads is greatly outweigned...
...vast portraits of Marx and Engels, along with Stalin and Mao, in Tien an Men square somehow confirmed the conviction that it was absurd to let these people, or their like, seize the political initiative from us. When Americans take to sandals and posting up posters to Hindu divines, it is understood that adolescence is in a difficult phase. But what in the name of God were these half-acre portraits of hirsute German bourgeois doing in the main square of a Mongol capital. Were these people grown-ups here?...Why not, then, explain to their parents that Marx...