Word: absurdity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week, it was clear that with Shirley Temple, Father Coughlin, the Dionne Quintuplets and Mrs. Roosevelt, Jerome Herman Dean was definitely one of that small company of super-celebrities whose names, faces and occupations are familiar to every literate U. S. citizen and whose antics, gracious or absurd, become the legend of their time...
...sport, particularly in its commercial aspects, yet this can hardly be done if "gates" are to be the source for the endowment. Secondly, the whole problem arises from lack of income, and to suppose that it can be overcome by using surplus to build up a capital is almost absurd. This would necessitate a much greater reduction in costs than has been proposed, and would benefit future generations only at the expense of present ones...
...melody in the music shop, or when she sails with the "casket brides" sent to bewive the men of New France, the effect is bright, colorful and joyfully inane. The damp scenes occur when things attempt to become serious. A Gilbert and Sullivan opus maintains a strain so consistently absurd that it is convincing; "Naughty Marietta" is only sporadically mad, and disturbs the audience by its sudden lapses into sanity. During the voyage to New Orleans, for instance, the cargo of maidens falls into the hands of pirates. These fellows, as villanous a crew as ever infested Penzance, leave their...
...Coolidge's criticism, that can be dismissed because of its basic assumption, that President Conant will carry his tendencies to their logical (?) and absurd conclusions. Because the President is thinking of the "improvement of the Harvard Faculty and the advancement of knowledge," Mr. Coolidge assumes that he will carry on these reforms to the utter neglect of the Harvard undergraduate. That is having very little faith in the intelligence of President Conant...
When Communistic organizations are allowed public expression for their views, the oft-repeated charge of Fascism in education becomes pointless. Any attempt at censorship in the name of Democracy, moreover, is absurd and dangerous. Among liberal democratic ideals the freedom of the individual--which involves freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than...