Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palpably absurd to blame the Press for what has been happening at London. The correspondents do not invent; they merely report. . . . What was there for the correspondents to do but set forth the case as they...
...this is fundamentally as absurd as it sounds but much less vicious. Actually, the hero and heroine of Hold Your Man resemble characters from the Morte d'Arthur much more than their counterparts in life. The picture is based on the shrewd supposition that cinemaddicts derive a pleasant reassurance from detecting-in persons with whom they can identify themselves-noble motives for bad deeds. The fact that it is completely insincere does not imply that it was inefficiently written, by Anita Loos, directed, by Sam Wood, or acted, by Hollywood's foremost specialists in sex. It contains...
...scene. Says Author Romains: "What I see before my eyes is life in the 20th Century, our own life as modern men. I face the fact that this life of ours is very difficult to group around any central character. ... A century ago it may not have been absurd to make the whole life of a city like Paris gravitate around a single individual. . . . Today, in my belief, it would be rather ridiculous. I also face the fact that, in the world as I see it, families are not of very much importance...
That the Brown Herald drew a large amount of criticism upon itself by its recent anti-war ballot was due to the fact that so many members of the student body were definitely of the conviction that war was an inexcusably absurd method of setting international differences of opinion. The same attitude was responsible for the declaration on the part of Oxford, Edinburgh, and other British university student bodies to the effect that they would under no circumstances go to war for "king and country...
...various occasions publishing humbuggery has been reported to the Post Office Department which has refused to take action on the grounds that the agencies actually did not promise to accomplish more than they did-i. e., print the absurd drivel sent them. However, reputable agents are currently trying to arouse action by the Federal Trade Commission which has broader powers. Author & Journalist pointed out the adroit wording of the publishers' provocative letters to Lottie, also called attention to the major catch in the publishers' schemes: In no case was Lottie told just how many copies of The Missing...