Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolution or an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to the unjustifiable. It is because he likes individual human beings, participates in living communities, and respects the truth, that he refuses to surrender his soul to an abstract ideal of humanity, a tyrannical party, and an absurd scholasticism," i.e., Communism...
Gallico's plot is intricate, skillful, absurd. The vet, a big red-bearded man, really hates other people's pets because his wife has died. His little daughter dotes on pets but specially on Thomasina. Coldly the vet orders aged pets chloroformed, but away in the glens there lives a mad witch who has a silver "Bell of Mercy'' hung on a great oak tree. When small boys ring the bell and bring frogs with broken legs to her door she restores them to health. Comes the day when the hardhearted vet orders Thomasina...
...like the dog his grandfather!" (King Abdullah, who was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab in 1951). Radio Moscow gleefully joined Nasser's chorus, described Hussein as "a friend of the bitterest enemies of the Arab world-the U.S., Britain and Turkey." The Cairo attacks were so patently absurd that Amman newspapers began publishing excerpts: "Jordanian Army Refuses Open Fire on Refugees" and "Demonstrations Being Staged Everywhere in Jordan." There were no demonstrations, as every refugee could plainly...
...devious course, for he was an "oick," i.e., a social outsider. Given the man's pride, ambition, quixotic brilliance and genuine Irish patriotism, this theory is as likely as any other. Yet most of the details of Casement's attempt to win Irish independence were absurd. When he went to Germany (via the U.S.) early in World War I. to recruit an "Irish Brigade" of war prisoners to fight against the British, the men turned up their honest noses...
...sort of study is probably the most stimulating the College can offer, and it could be made available to many more students than now take it. Conservative departments and timid students are the greatest handicap to expansion of tutorial for credit, but if the faculty can put aside the absurd notion that most students work only for grades, this timorous attitude can be overcome. There is a grade in tutorial for credit, unlike course reduction, but this is not the stimulus; the spur to work in "99" courses comes from the requirement of laying one's work before a tutor...