Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implication left by TIME (Nov. 17) that President K. T. Keller and Chrysler Corp. blocked efforts of Floyd Odlum to obtain 25% subcontracting on tank production is absurd, unfair to those men and the automobile industry, and unworthy of TIME...
...anybody supposes that in the past ten or twelve years Reuters' position as a world news agency has been equal to that of, say, the Associated Press of America, he is greatly mistaken. ... It is really absurd to talk as if Reuters in the past was governed by the twelve apostles but that now bandits have come in to take it over." At debate's end M.P.s insisted only that the Government closely scrutinize the Reuters deal...
Cosi fan tutte's plot is an absurd and tedious business about how two Italians prove their sweethearts faithless by disguising themselves as Albanians, and winning the girls handily. The New Opera acted as if its efforts with this situation were funny, and as if 18th-Century gags in Italian were comprehensible to Broadway. But the singers, only one of whom was over 40, voiced their airs and ensembles with Mozartean freshness and purity. Only one had big-time stage experience-Ina Souez, who was born Ina Rains in Denver, and had sung in Cosi jan tutte in Glyndebourne...
...Washington official who thought OFF almost as absurd as the Herald Tribune made it sound was Wild Bill Donovan, who, according to New York Times's Arthur Krock, had dreamed up an ingenious idea: an immense glass globe, lighted from within, to show President Roosevelt the disposition of all the world's armies, navies and air forces, and their positions from day to day, the economic resources of every theater of war, changes of population and their racial origins, war production in industrial areas-all projected on the surface of the globe in shining Technicolor from films inside...
...could say; no more. It takes one to start a fight, but it takes two to make an end of fighting. There was no apparent disposition in Moscow last week to call a halt. Said Soviet Spokesman Solomon ' A. Lozovsky: "The possibility of destroying the Soviet Union is absurd. We are confident of success because it is impossible to destroy the U.S.S.R., Britain and the United States. The Germans are dizzy with temporary successes. No single battle can finish this war. We . . . have no doubt as to the ultimate outcome...