Word: absurdity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concern with "saying something." In his earlier and even more maddening works (The Voyeur, Jealousy), he regarded his characters as objects, and he has extended his experiments in the baffling abstract film scenarios for Last Year at Marienbad and L'Immortelle. "The world is neither significant nor absurd," says...
Even though the Europeans go along with most of Commerce's safety list, they find some items baffling, absurd or impractical. Britain's Society of Motor Manufacturers recoils at the idea of a uniform PRNDL sequence of automatic shift positions, points out that some makes have fancy variations, including "two D positions" and even "the sequence RN1234D." Germany's Porsche objects to having to prove the safety of its gas tanks in actual crash tests, "because with a production of only 50 cars a day, one car represents a tremendous value." Volkswagen fears that the famous beetle...
Clearly the new system can be absurd -- some will undoubtedly hoard several books until 9 p.m. and then check them out for the night. Yet even now, in the midst of November hour exams, people say it is easier to get books than it was a year ago under the closed system...
...string of sour incidents. His political record is marred by two scandals with the State Liquor Authority, one in 1962-63 and the other which just broke last week; his divorce and remarriage; his crumpled presidential dreams; his veto of the $1.50 minimum wage bill last year; his absurd fall-out shelter campaign; and, of course, his broken promise not to raise taxes...
Acting like this just to avoid company would be absurd. And cavers do have other reasons for their secrecy. Too often when a cave's reputation spreads, its owners turn it into a commercial attraction and close it to further exploration. Or farmers dynamite their caves shut if careless cavers leave carbide lying around the cave's entrance, poisoning livestock. Those who know the Garden of Eden Cave say that this would happen to it as soon as people began to visit...