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Word: absurdity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always true that the most perniciously typical aspect of the modern era consists in the absurd attempt to reconstruct a solid and fruitful temporal order prescinding from God . . . and, if possible, extinguishing man's sighing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mater et Magistra | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliche in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill; and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater: Jul. 21, 1961 | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

Goodman spoke at Holmes Hall, Radcliffe, in the ninth annual New England School administrators' Institute. In his talk and in conversation afterward, Goodman developed themes from his recent work, Growing Up Absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paul Goodman Talks to Administrators about Teaching, Schools, Sex, Society | 7/20/1961 | See Source »

...human scale and damaging to the natural growth of young people; for example, he noted, vocational balance does not serve the natural development of the individual, but rather is a means by which manpower changed into jobs to fit society's needs. "The society's felt "needs" are absurd, Goodman insists, and frustrates creative capacity at every turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paul Goodman Talks to Administrators about Teaching, Schools, Sex, Society | 7/20/1961 | See Source »

...Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliché in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill, and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 14, 1961 | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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