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...with the University since the "non-merger" merger of 1971 and perhaps as far back as the inception of co-educational classes in 1943. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life has debated it for five years. The suggestions that float around have ranged from the mundane to the absurd. Some have proposed housing all sophomores in the Yard, and all freshmen in the Quad (or the reverse) and switching the River Houses into two-class residences. Others suggested converting to four-class housing University-wide by refurbishing the Yard into three Houses. Quad people have pointed out that with...
...draw, he had to move them to Cleveland, and now the Seals-Barons still weren't drawing and a moving company was looking for $70,000-and that wasn't in the Cleveland till either. I mean, it was fun owning a hockey team, but this was absurd...
...iron constitution and iron will, Biggs never gave way to the infirmities or arthritis that plagued him for the last 15 or 20 years. Some might have thought his unrelenting drive absurd. He himself had once said organists are considered to be on the "lunatic fringe of musicians, probably because they hang around churches all the time." But even with the good-humored lunacy and uncompromising attitudes toward performance that irritated the organists of the grandiloquent 19th century schools, Biggs serves as a model of a man--and a musician--whose dignity, humility, and integrity we can all admire...
Stanislaw Lem's stories are somewhat like the enormous gag that Edwin Land, the wealthy inventor of the camera that bears his name, pulled on Harvard when he tied his contribution for the Science Center to the stipulation that the structure look like his photographic brainchild. Lem is an absurd humorist whose jokes are too big to be funny. He writes of a world gone mad. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub and The Futurological Congress are tales set in future societies that no longer know where they have come from or where they are going. Indeed, they no longer know...
...remember just what in hell the War of Jenkins' Ear was. It's not the idea of comic relief that bothers you, it's those awful jokes. Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify it as absurd; yet as a very definite part of human nature. Notable examples of this sort of humor/social commentary are Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle, and Thomas Pynchon's brilliant Gravity...