Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
...real studies of the University. It has been suggested that the elementary requirement has been the backbone of the secondary school teaching of German in the East and that it will immediately decline in favor of French if the rules are changed. But it seems a little absurd that the University should support such teaching if the students do not want it. It is the function of a University to formulate the definition of a properly educated man and the schools should conform to that rule...
...Harvard freely accepts students who know no Latin but gives them an S. B. instead of an A. B. degree. Wrote President Conant: "For years the status of the S. B. degree has been absurd. ... I hope that before long the faculty will ... go to the root of the matter by eliminating the Latin requirement for the A. B. degree...
...absurd demand that a cinema which purports to treat a historical theme should be judged according to the fidelity with which it cleaves to the factual skeleton of the past has long been abandoned. When there is no real assurance that deep and erudite works of scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives...
...basis for future action, however, one might describe this policy by the same word with which President Conant has described the present status of the S.B. degree, "absurd." To adopt a discriminatory measure of any sort even for the commendable purpose of simplifying administrative machinery cannot find justification...