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...last-minute intervention by Khomeini might have produced a solution: most of the holdouts in the Majlis swear obedience to him, but he showed no inclination to act. On the contrary, in a major speech to the nation on Thursday, Khomeini reiterated his absurd charge of U.S.-Iraqi complicity in the invasion of Iran, but he pointedly ignored the hostage issue, an indication that he intended to leave their fate up to the Majlis...
...which one is too easily led by the harshness of the discussions, to assume evil intentions. It is necessary to be gracious as to intentions: one should believe them good, and apparently they are; but we do not have to be gracious at all to inconsistent logic or to absurd reasoning. Bad logicians have committed more involuntary crimes than bad men have done intentionally. Pierre S. duPont...
...Scarlet Letter, Mellow maintains, there is "something awesome about the manner in which Hawthorne fuses art and human sinfulness." Mellow even suggests, in an absurd simplification of Hawthorne's complex understanding of sin, that the sense of evil which pervades The Scarlet Letter resulted from Hawthorne's bitterness after failing to retain his appointment in the Salem Custom House. Mellow's analysis of The Blithedale Romance is similarly superficial, and makes the mistake of crediting Hawthorne with remarks that are made by his narrator. At the end of his discussion of Hawthorne's novels, Mellow concludes, somewhat simplistically, that "there...
There are theater-of-the-absurd interludes to the chronicle. The screenwriter Martin Berkeley, in a burst of informer's promiscuity, names 161 names. Judy Holliday, the incomparable impersonator of Hollywood dumb blonds, hires a researcher to check out her own political past. Zero Mostel shakes a grisly cap-and-bell to boast: "I am a man of a thousand faces, all of them blacklisted...
...Bert read the radical feminists - whom she then perceived as "the opposition." "We both argued ourselves into feminism," she recalls."I would say, 'They say a woman has a right to keep her job if she is pregnant.' Bert would say, 'That's absurd.' And then we would both realize that I was working and pregnant...