Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invention." Next day, at an impromptu press conference in an Albany airport hangar, Rocky himself implied that the whole story had been planted with the Daily News by New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner. He called it "absurd and wishful thinking on the part of the Democratic boss." Then reporters asked him if he thought that his divorce would hurt him politically. "I don't think so," he said. Question: "Do you consider the divorce question nonpolitical?" The heated reply: "I certainly consider it a personal matter...
...Fall & the Fallout. The Apple is a sample, not the best, or the worst, of an avant-garde movement that has been called "the theater of the absurd." It is a school whose major defect stems from its chief virtue: it fashions hypnotic images of disorder to convey the sense of a disordered world. But the essence of dramatic art, as of all art, is to impose order on chaos. Flawed, shapeless, often inarticulate, the theater of the absurd nonetheless does generate excitement. In its surreal, evocative way, it tries to grapple with the way things are now, with...
...Plus Godot. In view of its calculated mystifications, it may seem a trifle absurd to argue that this school of playwriting is seriously engaged in a radical criticism of the modern world and in a religious quest for the meaning of man. But in a provocative new book (The Theatre of the Absurd; Anchor Books; $1.45), Critic Martin Esslin argues just that and does it convincingly...
Upperclassmen in SGA expressed surprise that the freshmen did not want to have unlimited one o'clocks. Many felt that unless the limit were abolished completely it would be absurd to change it at all. They recalled the limit of 21 one o'clocks several years ago, and added that a constantly increasing number was ridiculous...
Dawson's heroine sees the world as an absurd jungle of animal and people, some real, some imaginary--all searching for meaning in their own ways, none finding it. She describes the confusion very vividly and then remarks, "Nothing in the jungle is ordained." This illustrates perhaps the most outstanding characteristic of the author's quietly individualistic style: her ability to state a complex perception in a simple, memorable way, without losing the overtones of the special experiences prompting...