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...American revolutionaries"-among them anarchists and Maoists, hard-core members of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, and Students for a Democratic Society-many of them veterans of the October March on the Pentagon. There was the Youth International Party (yippies), minions of the absurd whose leaders failed last fall to levitate the Pentagon but whose antics at least leavened the grim seriousness of the New Leftists with much-needed humor. And then there were the young McCarthy workers, the "Clean for Gene" contingent who had shaved beards, lengthened miniskirts and turned on to political...
...news and checked it out with one or two people to see whether it was accurate. And then I would have said, 'Let's keep informed, and we'll meet in the morning.'" It was at best ill-timed frivolity to needle the Administration, at worst an instance of absurd misjudgment. At the suggestion of more realistic advisers, McCarthy subsequently "amended" his statement to criticize Russia and make clear that he did con sider the invasion a serious matter...
...that is the case, the novel still fails, because Cozzens has chosen to write against the grain of his own special talent-that of a meticulous and compulsive craftsman-which demands the imposition of a precise design. The anti-novel requires bright irreverence, an almost exuberant sense of the absurd. It is just not-and it is easy to imagine Cozzens wincing at the phrase...
Last night Boyle denied that he had hired Miss McCarthy, or that he had said so. He did admit that he had consulted another handwriting analyst. Wednesday night he decided not to employ the analyst because of the "absurd" cost involved in retaining both him and a lawyer for a court case which would surely follow any successful challenge of the Wallace papers...
When the show ended and the people left, the blues band led by Peter Ivers continued to play. The people came back and grooved with them for half an hour. It was that kind of a night. Returning to the CRIMSON expecting to find a photo to accompany this absurd review, I discovered a note from the photographer (and this is God's truth) which I quote in its entirety: "Sorry fans--the play was so good that I forgot to load the camera." I was proud of him. Everyman's immediacy is such that you don't take pictures...