Word: absurdes
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There is an air of certainty about the decimal point or the fractionalized percentage-even in areas where the measurement is statistically absurd or the data basically unknowable. A classic example is a survey made some years ago, which solemnly reported that 331% of all the coeds at Johns Hopkins University had married faculty members...
...uprising against the Nazis during the occupation. On hand to preside was Police Chief General Tadeusz Pietrzak, who rammed through a resolution that said, "the rulers of Israel have now allied themselves to the most reactionary neo-Hitlerite circles in the German Federal Republic"-a bit of the absurd more likely to confuse than rouse any anti-Semite left in Poland. Undaunted, the opposition to Gomulka continued to stand firm. Last week a top Polish army general, Ignacy Blum, was fired for refusing to pass anti-Semitic literature along to his troops. Another measure of the opposition was offered...
Died. Matthew R. Goodman, 20, Cornell University senior and only son of Author Paul Goodman, social philosopher (Growing Up Absurd, Compulsory Mis-Education) and unofficial saint of New Left campus movements; of injuries when he fell from a ledge on New Hampshire's North Percy Peak while on a climbing expedition...
...Durocher ["Leo the Lamb," July 28] a gourmet?! Absurd! If my son's godfather has ever had anything other than steak and potatoes for dinner, it was because the menu was in French and he didn't know what he was ordering...
Early on, taut, angular editing and a brilliantly elliptical, soft-spoken narrative create some sense of frightening possibility. But, at the climactic revival scene, as Jones steps forward to shake hands with the Almightly and the band thunders out Deutschland iiber Alles, the message becomes childishly explicit-and essentially absurd...