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...contemporaries labeled him "a political Jules Verne." The term was pejorative; Verne, after all, was producing outlandish fictions about lunar voyages and undersea exploration. Theodor Herzl was even more absurd. He helped create Zionism and predicted the return of the Jews to their homeland. Yet the comparison with Verne was more than superficial. Both men began as romantic visionaries who sought careers in law, then in the theater, then in literature. Verne went on to science fiction; Herzl went on to Palestine. That bizarre journey has all the qualities of fin-de-siècle romance. It might have been...
...animal might have been saved, but the psychology of the moment demanded a kill. "Here was I," recalled the ex-official, "the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind." After the ritual sacrifice, the writer confesses, "I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often...
Edward L. Pattullo director of the Center for the Behavioral Sciences and a member of the Committee on Expository Writing said. "It's absurd that choice should be restricted to only a certain small group of students on the basis of a very arbitrary test...
Delda White, director of publications at Radcliffe, who in August 1973 filed a complaint with the Department of Labor charging Harvard with discrimination against women employees, said yesterday that the Faculty "could have done a lot better." She termed the affirmative action goals "embarassing" and "absurd...
...worth the risk to bring back Maud-ling, a Tory heavyweight who negotiated for Britain's entry into the European Free Trade Area during the late 1950s and who narrowly lost the party leadership to Heath ten years ago. As Mrs. Thatcher explained, "It seemed to me quite absurd to have that great reservoir of experience there and not to use it. So I said, 'Reggie, will you join us again?' and he said, Td love to, my dear.' He was delighted...