Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exotic"' dancers, many of the girls are forced to serve a dark apprenticeship in hustling drinks, picking pockets, and prostitution. One dancer, sultry-eyed Anita Lopshok ("Fatima" to her fans), testified that two bartenders, under orders from her boss, tore off all her clothes and forced her onstage. Absurd as it is that such girls should belong to a labor union, they are all members of the American Guild of Variety Artists. But A.G.V.A. clearly has done little or nothing to improve their working conditions. Said Stripper Corinne Stein: "The girls were forced...
...Please tell Mr. Ebtehaj to leave prison so as to make our job easy," said the magistrate to a clerk. Thus, on the same absurd note with which it began seven months ago, the case of Iran's most celebrated prisoner ended last week...
...seems patently absurd to abolish a method which has so many counts in its favor as has the lecture system. Moreover, there may well in small group teaching, for old Martin observes "Maybe it do well to have only small obsession with method grows, Chicago method, or with the method or with the Columbia Group dynamics can become a grown thing. You can forget what doing and what you are committed...
...told the freshmen that modern war was 2000 times worse than the medieval version. Clarence Darrow denounced "poverty-creating big business" as the cause of all crime." Sinclair Lewis declared that "one half the people in college could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis dismissed grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades should be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance records for upper classmen at the same time...
...Give Us Your Help." The highlight of the Administration drive came when President Kennedy addressed 20,000 people-most of them elderly-at a Madison Square Garden rally. Speaking over all three major TV networks (he was granted free time on the absurd theory that his speech was nonpolitical), the President charged the A.M.A. with failure to understand the King-Anderson bill, even went so far as to equate opposition to the bill with opposition to social security. Asked he of his audience: "Come and give us your help...