Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures are bad, the examination in January is absurd. Approximately twenty minutes are required to answer questions, which could have been answered without attending the lectures. The marks are not recorded and the graders are lenient. There is no incentive to interest. On the contrary there seems to be a deliberate attempt to instill lethargy...
...have heard Harvard's juvenile three centuries mentioned with apology. That is absurd. Three centuries in America look like ten in Europe; beyond a certain point historical foreshortening plays havoc with time, besides which the foundation of a college three hundred years ago in New England was a more creditable achievement than that of an English university six hundred years back. One feels a certain nakedness at first, in the absence of the accepted minutiae,--even of gowns, bicycles and turbans, which contribute to the peculiar flavor of Cambridge life. But then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere...
...mispronunciation among cinemaddicts. For the rest, the picture sticks to the pattern of its footlight original, with satisfactory results. Fred Astaire is still the centre of whatever plot there is. A dancer on a European holiday, he pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist. There appear the impediments customary in musicomedy romance. Astaire is mistaken for a professional corespondent whom the young lady's guardians (Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton) have ordered from an agency. A fatuous waiter makes ridiculous monologs. At odd moments a comely chorus dances, sings and wears...
...shelter of such a treaty Japan could, and will if possible, attempt to build her navy to match the strength of her Pacific rivals. Once already, fear of Japanese invasion has caused a concentration of English sea power to protect Singapore and the Dutch Indies. Consequently it is absurd to believe that England would allow Japan to create a navy commensurate in size or strength with her own. Nor is it conceivable that Senator Hiram Johnson and his colleagues would allow the United states to stand idle while her Pacific neighbor arms to the teeth. In short, the acceptance...
...political events of Europe are to mean anything at all to the people of America it is time that the press ceased to surround European Royal Houses with a halo of romance--which is usually exaggerated and in this case absurd--and directed its attention to giving its readers the instruction on political affairs which they are undoubtedly anxious to receive. Bernard C. Sendall Wolfgang F. Stolper...