Word: absurdities
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...board got into pop culture-rock 'n' roll, movies, cartoons. There was a turn toward absurd comedy, real silliness. We'd grown up seeing Mad Magazine and saw no difference between writing a poem and a rock 'n' roll parody. So we did both," Cerf adds...
Such is the attitude that colors the predominant campus view about ROTC--scornful condescension--and the more absurd minority position that it is incumbent upon Harvard to "oppose" the military establishment. It is to Harvard's discredit that as an institution it effectively subscribes to this minority notion in maintaining its policy, a result of the 1969 tumult, of nor permitting ROTC on campus. Beyond the benefits the program offers students seeking a way to pay for college and serve their country, what does this policy imply about our adherence to the liberal ideal of tolerating a diversity of political...
...National Conference title game, Walsh had Montana exchange places with Wide Receiver Freddie Solomon once, and twice a third guard was slipped into the backfield. "There's some excitement and adventure to those kinds of things," Walsh says, "and some risk of embarrassment too. It can border on the absurd...
...second act, with its clowns and gypsies and with its great duel scene, is easily the best, and the Joffrey performs it with sweep and charging bravura. Elsewhere there are difficulties, some of which should disappear as the company settles into the work. Right now the dancers have absurd ideas of rich life in the Renaissance. The men strut and pose, the ladies arch their backs so radically that they look poised for a back flip. An exception is Gerel Hilding, whose Tybalt has genuine authority. Perhaps unwittingly, Stuttgart Choreologist Georgette Tsinguirides, who set the ballet on the Joffrey, made...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...