Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perpetuity' over the canal. Then, after all the talk of getting rid of us, they say that we are morally obligated to remain in Panama under the 'perpetuity' clause to keep the canal going as a business operation for the Panamanians. Now that is an absurd contradiction...
...gold standard. He has been much influenced by Jacques Rueff, his economic mentor and probably the world's foremost proponent of a return to gold; Rueff greeted De Gaulle's blast last week as "an invitation to a common enterprise that will deliver the West from an absurd monetary system." But De Gaulle, however much he may admire the theory, is an artist of the possible, and he is probably using the threat of a gold standard in hopes of pressuring the U.S. and Britain into accepting lesser changes in the monetary system favorable to France...
...employed by the black humorists, it is a response to a world grown mechanized and impersonal, where even stupidity, viciousness and anxiety can seem institutionalized. At its most proficient, their writing takes the step beyond complaint to scorn; beyond alienation to the assertion of the individual; beyond the" absurd to laughter at absurdity. At its worst, their laughter can be shrill, silly, or self-indulgent. It has yet to blow down Jericho, let alone the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the best of the new breed, writers like Barth and Donleavy, it is the work still in their typewriters...
...class marshal election should be a simple process in which seniors decide who shall lead the commencement. It is clearly absurd that a body which purports to represent the students should frustrate rather than expedite the decision...
...intriguing little experiment in which subjects couldn't tell pot from Sano. Presumably he used inexperienced subjects, or they could have told just by the smell. The idea that millions of hemp users for the past 5,000 years have just thought they were getting high is too absurd for further consideration, so I venture to suggest three other explanations for the strange result...