Word: absurdities
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...threatened. Immorality and freedom cannot coexist. So for the American people to believe that the preservation of our country can be guaranteed by merely cleaning up the waterways and the air, or bettering the economy, or promoting cooperation among nations, or by following other such similar courses, is absolutely absurd. How in the world can a society have any freedom and progress in a climate of "anything goes"? Gold, power, and science can be at your fingertips, but without a sense of morality you will also have anarchy first, and then slavery...
...past few seasons the Theater of the Absurd has seemed like an endangered dramatic species. Purebred examples of the genre, with their vaudevillian non sequiturs, wryly autumnal philosophizing about existence and wackily disconcerting knee-jerk humor, have become rare. In part, audiences have adjusted to the metaphysical void that permeates absurdist drama, the absence of meaning and purpose that so puzzled and infuriated them when the early Pinter plays appeared...
...Voltaire, now 82, who promoted the craze when in 1734 he made the first translations of Shakespeare into French. Now he is alarmed that he may have subverted la gloire de France by recognizing "sparks of genius" in someone "so barbarous, so low, so unbridled and so absurd" as William Shakespeare. Voltaire has decreed that the scenes of debauch at the Danish court in Hamlet could only have been written by "a drunken savage...
...World Christianity, Reverend Moon, whose country was once a target for Christian missionaries, is now three years into his program for turning the tables on the West and evangelizing it for his own (TIME, Nov. 10). He had forecast an overflow crowd of 200,000, perhaps even an absurd million, for his stadium extravaganza. In preparation, 1,500 of his relentlessly smiling young followers held brass-band rallies from Harlem to Wall Street, plastered every available wall with red-white-and-blue posters bearing Moon's smiling face, and handed out free tickets to the "God Bless America Festival...
...case of Cadet Timothy Ringgold shows how absurd the honor system can be. After the engineering-exam scandal broke, Ringgold, who was not accused of cheating, and other cadets happened to meet with Army Under Secretary Norman R. Augustine. During the talk, which was supposedly off-the-record, Ringgold said he felt cheating was "widespread" at the Point. Another cadet who was present felt duty-bound to charge Ringgold with toleration...