Word: absurdities
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...stifling, and thwart the individual's natural growth; but there are other marriages, healthy marriages, that allow both individuals their fulfillment. I am most upset that so perverse a belief should be attributed to me, since I have been married for 13 years. There is enough vicious, absurd anti-male and antimarriage propaganda in America today without Mrs. Duffy's deliberate distortion of my views...
...want you to worry about it. I know what I'm doing and I'm doing the right thing.' " She simply laughs off AFL-CIO President George Meany's charge that the President is suffering "dangerous emotional instability." Says she: "It's so absurd...
Although the singing doesn't always warrant the effort, special credit should go to Paul Schommer's orchestra for accomplishing the difficult feat of keeping the music at the right volume. Choreographer Ricardo and those four charcoal grey executives a glorious sense of the absurd, prancing around the stage in the Act One showstopper: "Where Do You Take a Girl...
...absurd importance of certificates, permissions, licenses and ratings in all our lives, the pursuit of success not for fulfillment but only for achievement-these are the subjects of The Paper Chase, a movie of some incidental pleasures and insights and a great deal of silliness. Director-Writer Bridges (The Baby Maker) uses a typically tense year at Harvard Law School as a metaphor for the reflexive mania of competition, trying to squeeze into a school term a full complement of crosscurrents in the American national character. His designs for his story (adapted from a novel by John Jay Osborn...
...Boswell, A Bad Man and The Dick Gibson Show, Stanley Elkin demonstrated lavish verbal and comic gifts, a generosity of spirit and a talent for staging extravaganzas of the absurd. If his plots lurched and his ideas went off like random flares, Elkin's characters commanded attention because of the manic way they acted out their necessities...