Word: absurdities
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THEATRICALLY AND intellectually, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the last decade's most awesome dramatic conceptions. An ingenious retelling of Hamlet from the point of view of that tragedy's two incidental victims, this piece of absurd theater involves difficult staging, acute psychological insight, and beautiful language which demands highly subtle direction and acting...
...absurd of you to say in the face
...something evil? General Motors pollutes and discriminates; public utilities do much the same; other firms produce war materials, or exploit other colonial societies; and so on. Moral consistency then, demands that if Harvard divests from Gulf it ought to divest from every other firm, which is, of course, an absurd idea, since Harvard would thereby destroy itself...
...action, "which gives the whole thing a sense of existential displacement." The following weekend, Arthur Fainsod '73 will be directing Ionesco's "Victims of Duty" in which the master of the ridiculous gets his kicks in depth psychology. It's "very much in the tradition of the absurd," the director says...
...validity. It was the intention of that meeting to consider and vote on various proposals that were to reflect the sentiment of the Harvard community. However, I would maintain that to say that all of the proposals are supported by a majority of the Harvard student body is as absurd as the manner in which they were passed...