Word: absurdism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long, and the main characters are unlikable. The score, which Sullivan used to indulge his Wagnerian pretenses, lacks any memorable tunes. Gilbert and Sulivan devotees won't be completely disappointed, though, because Princess Ida contains all of the elements the pair is famous for. Patter songs, topical jokes and absurd characters abound, and the part undergraduate, part professional cast makes the most of what they are given...
...helpless and so absurd. The police wore baby-blue helmets. They marched in military formation. It was so stupid...
...kind of hand-held gun leads inexorably to total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government takes the Kalashnikov from the hands of the maniac on the school playground, it will be coming for my Winchester pump tomorrow. There is no evidence for this absurd belief, but it remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand the N.R.A. takes is only nominally on behalf of recreational hunters. The people it really serves are gun manufacturers and gun importers, whose sole interest is to sell as many deadly...
...Ambassador to Washington Minister Orlando Letelier in Washington. It was the caller in Chile who identified himself as an Israeli ultra-nationalist protesting the U.S.-P.L.O. talks. For someone merely interested in having strawberries on his cornflakes, the three-continent skein of commerce and terrorism was growing absurd...
Women agreeing to enroll or take up employment here clearly expect that the right to freedom of movement will be guaranteed. It would be absurd to suggest that Harvard's committment to equal treatment for both sexes somehow doesn't include this basic right...