Word: absurdes
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...What was absurd even to think about last September happened all too realistically at Providence last Saturday. Brown overrunning a Crimson defense at will and stopping its offense cold, beat Harvard, 24-17, and left any chance Harvard had of salvaging a winning season lying shattered on the turf at Brown Stadium...
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...present, the so-called solutions are grim and inadequate if not absurd. Many big-city slum schools have installed special lighting, hidden microphones, and burglar-alarm systems. New York City policemen often patrol their beats inside the schools. Yet exporting the custodial techniques of Sing Sing to the schools hardly creates authentic discipline, much less an atmosphere conducive to learning...
...Loeb programming. Boorstin has mounted a production of main stage importance. even if it might have been more at home in the more intimate surroundings of the Experimental Theatre. Nonetheless, the result is solid evidence that the invidious distinction that has often existed between the two Loeb stages is absurd...
...last charge by the group of demonstrators who rushed the Pentagon doors was sufficient reason for cracking down on the protestors. The Marshals began to push the MP's forward until they were pressed against the sitting demonstrators. Then they would tell an unfortunate protestor to move-an absurd request because the seated crowd was packed knee to knee. When he didn't move, they clubbed him and anyone who tried to hold onto him. Many of the demonstrators pleaded with the soldiers to drag people out instead of clubbing them. But the soldiers evidently had orders to leave...