Word: absurdes
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...light of the massacre of innocent civilians at My Lai, doesn't the indictment of the Green Berets for the murder of a double agent seem absurd...
...more workable alternatives-if there are, we haven't found them. In the long run, dropping out might fail to do much good. The same goes for staying in. All that is left is to huddle close with our friends, hang on to a sense of the absurd and wait...
...three isolators of the gene, as reported in the CRIMSON of Nov. 24, are a superb example of why some intellectuals should not be allowed to vote. How far can Leftist paranoia go? The suggestion that the present administration would offhandedly sterilize or emasculate thousands of people is so absurd that it suggests that its authors would themselves make good subjects for study at the Medical School. Dare one remind men that they are lucky enough to live in America, where the Bill of Rights and the electoral process are still in effect? Dare one wonder whether...
...Marxist Economic Theory. Critics both in the U.S. and abroad have praised the book's fresh, undoctrinaire approach to Marxism, and the Economist felt that "no student can afford to ignore this very important work." Mandel's ideas may clash with American beliefs, but there is something absurd in the whole Mc-Carran Act notion that the U.S. must be protected from dangerous alien contamination by keeping out certain travelers...
Voltaire failed from a kind of perfection. Everything came easily to him except a certain divinely vulgar excess. He was, as one critic complained, a "chaos of clear ideas." He accused Shakespeare of being "barbarous," "unbridled," "low" and "absurd." Exactly. And that coarse strength is what we miss at last in Voltaire. By his masterly demonstration of the farthest reach of reason, he finally showed how much lies beyond...