Word: absurdities
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...Looking back, I will remember being a part of a diverse team, one that I enjoyed being a part of. I may still swim when I get the chance, but it will be different on my own. In my opinion, swimming is an absurd sport in many ways, but the bottom line is that I did it because I liked...
...criticize Dukakis harshly and fight for a ban on unelected super-delegates at future conventions. Some ideologues, led by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, even argue that Jackson should insist on the vice presidency as his due. Such a potentially divisive strategy, coupled with unrealistic demands, seems absurd to Jackson's more pragmatic supporters, many of whom are white liberals new to the cause. They fear that if Dukakis rebuffs Jackson at the convention, it could prompt enough disgruntled black voters to stay at home in November to doom the Democratic ticket...
DONALD Regan, in the latest of the kiss-and-tell books on the Reagan Administration, revealed the regular use of astrology by the man who once said "trees cause pollution, too." Coverage in the media focused first on the practice's humorous aspects, the absurd images of Nancy Reagan and her faithful seer organizing the President's daily schedules according to the movements of the planets. I laughed until I cried...
...wildly asserts a parallel with Ionesco and the Theater of the Absurd...
Columnist James J. Kilpatrick argues that fears of a Japanese invasion were not absurd at the time. But the Japanese military turned its attention far to the east immediately after Pearl Harbor. By the end of December 1941, Lieut. General John L. DeWitt, who commanded West Coast defenses, concluded that no invasion was likely. By the time F.D.R. signed the Executive Order, top Army and Navy commanders agreed that an invasion was almost impossible. Nonetheless the evacuation policy proceeded, partly to show that the Government was busy doing something. There simply was no military need to uproot Japanese-American families...