Word: absurdities
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...says he does not use peyote any more, and his only drug experiences took place with Don Juan. His own encounters with the acid culture have been unproductive. Invited to a 1964 East Village party that was attended by such luminaries as Timothy Leary, he merely found the talk absurd: "They were children, indulging in incoherent revelations. A sorcerer takes hallucinogens for a different reason than heads do, and after he has gotten where he wants to go, he stops taking them...
Burghardt was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., where he became friendly with another prisoner, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan. The two jogged together and discussed the theater and Viet Nam. In Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes, Berrigan wrote about Burghardt: "This young black resister...had been an actor and TV personality...He came in like a Roman candle, with all his talents exploding around...
...this, too, is part of the antiwar movement, and part of student demonstrations. The movement has left much to be desired, many questions unanswered. The marches were sometimes frustrating, repetitive, and often absurd. But they were nonetheless a source of pride, and while their presence in history may seem at times unproductive, their absence would have been a matter for shame...
...hair cropped, or rather, styled-at absurd prices-Rip retires to a bar for refreshment and intelligence. The TV set is in color now, and there is something called Cable that makes the reception better-although for what purpose is not so clear. True, there are no more cigarette commercials, and some programs called Sesame Street and The Electric Company are brightening the day for children. But for adults, it is, as always, lame adventure series and innocuous sitcoms, the halt leading the bland. There are fewer talk shows and more movies made expressly for TV-all of them...
...last Follies star, sighed, "Well, we may not have been perfect, but we outlasted Fiddler on the Roof." The Associated Press Saigon bureau chief, Richard Pyle, was less benign but more accurate when he called the briefings "the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia's theater of the absurd...