Word: absurdism
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...Dodo. Final clubs now have a monopoly on the weekend social scene; there is no public place, owned by a capitalist adult, where Harvard, Tufts and Boston College students can mingle with creepy Cambridge locals, all reveling in their shared bending of an obsolete and absurd drinking...
...meaningless except as a test of a fighting man's virtue. Like every other great war movie, Black Hawk Down succeeds because it becomes, almost unintentionally, an antiwar movie--or at least one that can be read that way by anyone so inclined--a relentless catalog of the many absurd and accidental ways you can die when you are ordered into harm...
...marketing companies that lure young Israelis to the U.S., and may also infiltrate a few Mossad agents. Leopold counters: "Why would they put 11 very obvious young Israelis together in the middle of rural Ohio? Any suggestion of a connection to a national security threat in this case is absurd...
...take Kieval’s argument, this is not such an absurd proposition; she, and all the Leverett residents quoted in The Crimson, are bothered by feeling like an outsider, not feeling oppressed or hated. Sexuality, ethnic identity, physical handicaps and social nature are also identity traits that make someone an outsider at times...
This allergic reaction first surfaced during the hopeless inanity of prefrosh weekend. There I sat, in the absurd Harvard first-year dining hall, dreading what I sensed I would soon be doing with the motley, shoddily constructed yarn-ball, which organizers sickeningly referred to as a “Warm Fuzzy.” Slowly and deliberately, with saccharine good humor and effortless Harvardese, our emcee gave the instructions for the gruesome “getting-to-know-you” game that helped put me off of people for good (and vice versa...