Word: absurdities
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...motion but lacking in any discernible destination. Carroll was a master of wordplay. In this "adaptation," whatever words survive from the original are drowned in the nondescript tunes. Above all, Carroll saw the adult world through a child's eyes, that is, as a theater of the absurd. The logic of that world is seen as illogic by a child, and its arbitrary punishments are edged with psychological menace. This production contains no hint of these elements (they were rewardingly incorporated in Andre Gregory's brilliantly intuitive off-Broadway re-creation of ten years...
...after the details of his 20-year reign of terror became public. After all, she says in perhaps the most ironic and alarming part of her article, Argentina is closer to progressive liberalization than Cuba or China. Her comparison of these countries in terms of human rights is as absurd as her suggestion that Argentina, suffering under a lethal stability imposed by the right, will soon be democratized...
...least, one must agree with Kirkpatrick when she says that rightist authoritarian regimes are more likely to be democratic than, say, Cuba or China. At present, the possibility of, say, Cuba or Poland becoming free and democratic is certainly absurd; yet in the past few years three Latin American countries, and only one with the prompting of President Carter--the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Peru--have all peacefully discarded their military regimes...
Indeed, it is this peaceful transition that the United States should encourage, for it is equally absurd to suggest that all revolutionaries in Latin America are either Sovietstooges or completely unjustified in their actions. Oil-rich Venezuela has realized this, and has used its social conscience both at home and abroad to improve the status of human rights throughout the region. A coherent U.S. foreign policy in Latin America should be firmly grounded in cooperation with Venezuela--and perhaps newly rich Mexico, which appears to be taking a similar approach--to improve the conditions of the Latin American people, rather...
Lewis feels no frustration in being an observer instead of an actor, though he admits a good reporter frequently senses that he knows more about an issue than those actually involved. "The absurd fantasy for someone covering the Supreme Court," he says, grinning, "is that you would be sitting there in the courtroom, listening to the argument, and suddenly the lawyer faints and the Chief Justice says to the reporter, 'Would you like to continue...