Word: absurdities
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...hatred of the Soviet and East Berlin regimes made him the leading opponent in the Bundestag of former Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. He has not budged in his position. Interviewed recently in his Munich penthouse, he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron: "Ostpolitik's trade deals are absurd. First we offer to sell the Soviets something; then we give them the money to buy it. That's a marvelous way of doing business, isn't it? We should concentrate on improving relations with our friends instead of our enemies...
...This is of course absurd, because the need for force just doesn't go away. Yassir Arafat, a man who claims to stand for the sovereignty and well-being of his people, like the Crimson editors, will not stop his butchery one fine morning...
Murray Schisgal commands the last manic outpost of the theater of the absurd. He can be terribly funny-provided his audience possesses sympathy with the dipsy doodlers of this world...
...ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR. A singularly jovial farce. Three suburban British couples party together on three successive Christmas Eves, and the audience gets blind drunk on laughter...
...larynx, a boy with no jaw, a man whose flesh had wasted away, and one or two people his own age-he became an un-defeatable rallying point. He mocked doom by plotting "jail breaks" and rebellion against the staff. He laughed at cancer by drawing and circulating absurd cartoons. Once, he and another man smuggled themselves out of the hospital in a laundry cart-and then of course returned to Ewing Eight. He fell in love with a young nurse, and during his periods of parole they lived together with astonishing cheerfulness...