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...difference, of course, is that there is latent in the Poor People's demands, a threat of violence. But to associate the violence and the campaign is absurd. There will be violence this summer anyway; there will surely be blood and looting. The campaign was conceived as a way to provide a possible alternative to that violence, if only by making efficient political use of the threat of violence...
...Basically, today's undergraduate rebels hope to be taken seriously as a responsible voice in shaping their university-which means influencing basic policy decisions, securing better teachers, helping create a more meaningful curriculum, and insisting on autonomy in their personal lives. None of these requests are at all absurd...
...ineradicable genius for evil has reduced the doctrine of social engineering to puny tinkering. Playwrights like Beckett, lonesco and Genet have abandoned admonitory Ibsenite finger-waving for a nerve-shattering look into the abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered Miller obsolete by altering the central focus of theater from sociology to metaphysics...
...about it, his records just before the last one were almost restricted in the way he stuck to hard electric sound and dirty big-city imagery. The messages of the songs on Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited were generally pessimistic and unloving, though it's almost totally absurd to generalize about any group of Dylan's songs...
...Saying that Updike is not in the mainstream of contemporary American letters is manifestly absurd. Since when is creativity governed by conformity? Updike would not deign to wade in Mailer's muddied mainstream. Updike, in his personal life and his writings, is a lover. Mailer, in both, is a hater...