Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over songs and songwriters as he was when he lately pleaded for the maternal rights of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Because Victor Herbert was his friend, the ASCAP cause became so dear to his heart that he served it for seven years (1914-21) without pay. Competition between songs is absurd, according to ASCAP and its shrewdly sentimental lawyer. "A person desiring to hear 'Mother Machree,' " says Mr. Burkan, "is not satisfied with and will not accept a rendition of 'A Kiss in the Dark...
Deep-rooted in lonely Emma's mind is the notion that humans' when they die, are reborn as animals. Beginning with this seemingly absurd assumption, Thames Williamson creates a series of remarkable coincidences which strengthen the old maid's belief, builds them up to a thoroughly dramatic conclusion which will satisfy the reader who has opened the book with some hesitation...
...often minor decisions such as the choice of a field of undergraduate concentration, can force the individual into a position where later on his choice of career is not only limited, but beset by obstacles which he is not anxious or willing to face. Nevertheless, it would be absurd to claim that there have not been in the past and will not be in the future, many, who having choose the field of Fine Arts for a career, did not find values which not only offset but compensated for the disadvantages I have enumerated
...better ways of increasing the number of "Reds" in our colleges than by seeking to suppress them forcibly. If curbed they must be, there is no better weapon than ridicule--as the Michael Mullins Marching and Chowder Club of Harvard has on several occasions successfully demonstrated. But it is absurd to speak of a "Red menace" in the colleges. New York Herald Tribune. Sunday...
...patently absurd that, because of a mere administrative detail, the so-called University squash courts should be included in the regular H.A.A. ticket while the House courts require an additional fee. There is little to be gained by forcing members of the Houses to desert the squash facilities that have been provided for them-for the majority would do this rather than pay duplicate charges. Since, then, there would be no financial loss involved, the new participation ticket should be extended to include the House courts. The present $3 ticket should, of course, be retained for the benefit of those...