Word: absurdism
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...absurd that this is newsworthy, but what's even more absurd is that we waste thousands upon thousands of dollars to ‘scientifically prove’ that eating less leads to weight loss...
...unhealthy relationship with food, often characterized by an obsession with nutrition, constant dieting and perpetual dissatisfaction with body image. You’ve seen or have been victim to its various incarnations—obsessively going to the gym, binging at the dessert table, constantly strategizing about caloric intake, absurd one-fruit-an-hour diets, screensavers that say, “Diet or die,” Facebook notes that cry out for help, a sudden and inexplicable switch to veganism, etc. While anorexia is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual as failure to maintain body weight within...
...poem of his newest book, “The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel.” In this collection, the poet’s gaze spans New York and the greater Boston area as he observes his characters with attentive and probing eyes. Holder recounts absurd moments in the miserably ordinary lives that constellate his world. He uses these stories as a sort of social critique of today’s humdrum realities, engaging a universal longing for something beyond the banal.But Holder’s material doesn’t spark much more interest than...
Facing a top-ranked team is always intimidating. But four dates with teams ranked at the top of their leagues just eight games into the season? Absurd. The Harvard men’s volleyball team (3-5, 1-1 EIVA) took on its fourth top-ranked opponent in Rivier (21-1, 7-0 GNAC) last night at the Malkin Athletic Center and fell to the Raiders 3-0 (30-16, 30-19, 39-37). Although Rivier may hail from the often overlooked Division III Great Northeast Athletic Conference, the team from nearby Nashua, N.H. demonstrated why it deserves to have...
...short run, will it do enough to make low-income shelter a national priority again in the long run? To critics, the Florida legislature's decision reflects not just fiscal necessity but a cultural bias against affordable housing that has grown since the Reagan era and got outright absurd in recent years. At the turn of the century, Florida was averaging about 10,000 new affordable-housing units per year; today it's about half that. Some Florida towns have even enacted minimum square-footage requirements for single-family homes and have all but zoned out affordable rental units. Last...