Word: absurdes
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...death, I don't think most parents would share the same degree of devotion. The concept of Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public telling their son to go risk his life in a war situation (a situation few parents could adequately explain) because Nixon says so seems absurd...
...Bernstein: There have been innumcrable interpretations of Endgame, perhaps the most famous being Martin Esslin's characterization of the play as an example of "theatre of the absurd." Do you feel that this type of criticism gets in the way of an approach to prcsenting Beckett...
...reviewer of Professor X's (Daniel Boorstin) The Sociology of the Absurd [April 13] missed what is probably the most delightful point of satire against society found in the book: the dedication "To Dick and Gloria Dorspn-Motif No. D132." Professor Dorson is director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and D132 refers to a unit of classification-the motif-used by folklorists in breaking down tales into component parts for analysis. Motif No. D132 is "transformation...
...Tuesday, Halperin called the recent protest against the CFIA "absurd." He said that the CFIA is "an organization that performs objective, honest research. If you don't like the conclusions, that doesn't mean you can't like the organization," he added...
...capitalist and even feudalism governments abroad) have their roots in the party dictatorship which took hold in Russia as the Civil War drew to a close and to see them as having emerged all of sudden in 1953 as Stalin's body was cooling is an absurd travesty of historical fact...