Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldier-explorer, with a head like a ravaged handsome Apollo"). But the struggle is not for control of a ministry or even of an industry, but for the right to guide the destinies of the London Zoo in the 1970's. All the intense decisions and rivalries are ultimately absurd...
...does mention the problems Radcliffe girls face in maintaining their femininity, especially in the academic world, the sometimes absurd search for imagery and symbolism in many literature courses, and the misery of living in a women's dorm (she is probably accurate here). However, nowhere is the clash of values between upper middle class and upper class girl discussed. Not one sentence is devoted to the determined and self-conscious political activists. And the effect of stiffening academic requirements on Radcliffe's activities is ignored...
...joking aside, Bob Kennedy noted that the "only Communist the John Birchers have uncovered is President Eisenhower"-a reference to the absurd charge in Birch Society President Robert Welch's Blue Book that Ike was "a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy...
...style. Actress Presle portrays without pity the labored cuteness, the varicose ardors of the nymph at 40. Actress Seberg achieves exactly the right matte shade of skin, the look of slightly tainted meat that suggests and ever so slightly caricatures the girl who sleeps around. Actor Perier interprets to absurd perfection the sort of paterfamiliarity that breeds contempt. And Actor Cassel flutters across the screen with the abandon of a butterfly that, without hope of heaven, can at best expect to spend eternity in a cocktail tray...
...This sometimes does limit the range of our editorial topics, but it includes the NDEA as well as student activities; and to imply, as the article did, that we would give news preference to club party schedules over a statesman's speech or a significant University action is as absurd as it is unverifiable...