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...problem of quotas is one of application: numerical goals or targets can all too easily escalate into quotas, and competition among groups for quota allotment could reach dangerously divisive-or absurd-levels. During the debate over the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, it was Senator Roman Hruska who suggested that since there are so many mediocre Americans, mediocrity deserves representation on the highest bench. That doubtless is the reductlo ad absurdum of the quota argument...
...even less reasonable to suppose that America's steadfastness in Southeast Asia measurably affects Washington's credibility in the European theater with the Soviet Union, or even with the West European allies from Europes vantage point the war is an exercise not in credibility but in irrational and absurd theatricality...
Newspaper post-mortems of the Saturday routs usually concern themselves solely with the victor, while the loser of the "no-contest" contest is rapidly forgotten. The omission is significant, for it seems to indicate an unwillingness to probe why it is necessary to run up such absurd scores...
...into, never engulfed by this world. To the end, Billy Tully, physically and emotionally battered, blames his failures on cheating fighters and on the negligence of his manager. From afar, we are left to speculate on his world of fear and jealousy: we learn that violence is more than absurd--it is tragic. But while we are permitted to reflect on his desperate illusions, we are never fully engaged in the actions in which he moves. We think about how deeply this wasted man has been wounded, but we are never so involved that we share in his pain...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA I. A Face in the Crowd, which Elia Kazan made to satirize politics via media, wasn't very good to begin with and dates badly. Chuck Kramer has made an absurd case against political art on its basis in The Real Paper. He obviously doesn't know the best film examples (Rosi's works), and anything outside of film. With The Critic. Call 868-3600 for times...