Word: absurdism
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...Theater of the Absurd at Arafat HQ (April...
...might have been comical if it hadn't been so absurd. As Mike Tyson flexed his way into the Memphis Convention Center for the official weigh-in before tonight's highly anticipated boxing match, all 234.5 pounds of him seemed to suggest he was ready to rumble. His thick jaws working over a wad of gum, Tyson stood silently, grinning and mugging for reporters in his white shorts and white socks. The former heavyweight champion had nobody to antagonize, for the moment, anyway...
...almost 90 percent of applicants who were denied admission to the College last year, it seems almost absurd to suggest that Harvard has low standards...
Likewise, to the hundreds of companies that recruited graduates on campus this year, it seems equally absurd to suggest that Harvard’s curriculum is not top-notch...
...learned part of the answer almost two years ago, when I took a course on Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein. These are perhaps the three philosophers most useless for the task of social change; revolutionaries seek thrilling apostrophes to the workers of the world, not absurd questions such as “what is the number one?” Yet as we worked through the syllabus, I was struck by Frege’s injunction “always to separate sharply the psychological from the logical”—to distinguish clearly the reasons...