Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere refugee movement in London; he refused to enlist French soldiers into British units to "fight a war no longer their own"; he "encased myself in ice" against those who opposed him. "I am too poor to be able to bow," he once told Churchill. At first considered an absurd figure, in the end he won grudging respect ?and, more important, won his point...
...would be unreasonable. Illyria still keeps its Old World tempo, and the plot its tollgates. But the poetry dances in and out of the prankishness, the air is brushed with light, the carousing invokes no shudders and provides some laughs. Richard Wordsworth's Malvolio is grandly absurd in the letter scene, and in his yellow stockings and cross garters, really funny. Jane Downs's Olivia, Judi Dench's Maria, Dudley Jones's Feste, John Neville's Sir Andrew all bring something personal to their roles, and Barbara Jefford's Viola is attractively girlish whether...
...debate over whether or not the College should institute a uniform rent system centers around the proposition that any other method would be obviously absurd for Quincy House. Upon examining the matter more closely, however, it is evident that such a uniform system would do far more harm than good...
These woes are aggravated by the Government's absurd cotton-subsidy program, under which the Government dumps cotton abroad at 20% below U.S. prices. Foreign textilemen then make U.S. cotton into cut-price cloth that has won away U.S. markets both abroad and at home...
...Visitors, by Mary McMinnies. It may not be true that foreigners are funny, that men are silly, and that dictatorships are absurd, but Novelist McMinnies makes it seem so in this tale of diplomatic hanky-panky behind the Iron Curtain...