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...become the fat cat in the back of the limousine. Reason too often has dried up into "common sense" and become a cover word for intellectual timidity. The failure of conventionalized reason to explain two world wars or Jungian voyages into the unconscious must seem tragic as well as absurd. The result is that we have become the first people to proclaim their age the Age of Unreason...
...stiff-lipped way of talking: "Coolidge is what we call at home a close chewer and a tight spitter." But he did not limit his jokes to personal failings; he also knocked irresponsible government policies and actions. The moral self-righteousness with which we infuse our policies seems absurd against the hard truths of government inefficiency and immorality. Rogers used this contrast as a major source of his biting political humor. He noted the defeat of a bill to provide food for the poor and the passage of a bill for highway construction funds: "Pretty soon there...
Certainly the White House staff was only too happy to agree with Chinese wishes to withhold information on all top-level discussions. After the first Nixon-Mao meeting, Ziegler would not even pinpoint the location of Mao's home in Peking, or describe the refreshments. "Absurd," growled the New York Times''s Max Frankel, who was told it would be "fair to assume that tea was served." Arrangements for filing cables were fine. Phone calls were put through in a matter of minutes. But what...
Dressing Up. "Our environment was on the highest level of the absurd," recalls Candice Bergen, another childhood friend. "Our birthday parties, for example, were organized follies. There had to be trained-dog acts, magicians, cartoons, triple screenings of new movies?every imaginable extravagance. One of our friends even had an electric waterfall. It was all highly surrealistic, like living in a big playroom." Liza adds: "I remember a picture flashed through my mind, like a painting, at one of the parties. I had a feeling: This is not the average. This isn't the ordinary life...
...black volumes of political and cultural notes that were put together by Henry Kissinger to brief the President for his historic mission to China. A year ago, the very idea that Nixon, or any other U.S. Chief Executive, would visit China on a good-will mission would have seemed absurd. But not only the mountain goddess is startled these days by how the world has changed...