Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Valley, by J. B. Pick. An existential parable of men, caught in the senseless violence of the waning Thirty Years' War, who search for clues to the meaning of a gorily absurd world...
...Ronald Knox. d) Nevil Shute. 89. Died. A 46-year-old author (The Myth of Sisyphus) who would have considered the way he died, in a speeding sports car, absurd. His name: a) Nevil Shute. c) Ronald Knox...
...many a practiced politician, Jack Kennedy's punishing grind seemed absurd : running virtually unopposed, he could, if he wanted to, claim New Hampshire's eleven delegate votes with the merest amenities - a speech or two, a TV appearance, and many thanks. But Kennedy was doing it the hard, handshaking way for two reasons: 1) he hopes to get a bigger primary vote than Estes Kefauver got in 1956 (when 30% of the state's Democrats turned out) and thus convince his party's skeptics of his popular support; 2) his own example was an opportunity...
...wrote to Galinsoga, tactfully suggested that the culprit must have been an impostor using Galinsoga's card. Replied Galinsoga: "The card is mine. To go to church in a Spanish city where one hears, apart from Latin, a language that a Spaniard has no obligation to understand appears absurd...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...