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Word: absurdity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doors, so why should we pay these academics to do something equally inaccessible and pointless? I don't speak out of any ideological grudge and I could care less whether these academics continue to get paid for their self-gratification. But I find the "concerns" raised by Chaouli irresistibly absurd. The academics are a union of tailors trying to knit sewing machines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...doors, so why should we pay these academics to do something equally inaccessible and pointless? I don't speak out of any ideological grudge and I could care less whether these academics continue to get paid for their self-gratification. But I find the "concerns" raised by Chaouli irresistibly absurd. The academics are a union of tailors trying to knit sewing machines. THOMAS C. MUNRO '97-'99 March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literary Theory Irrelevant | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...official means of intra-office communication by his assistant, the nefarious Ballas, played expertly by Johannes Mowth, and, presumably, by the silent accomplice Mr. Pillar (Malka Resnicoff '00/Hostetler). As Gross begins his quest to set things right and prevent the ridiculously efficient language from taking over, he meets an absurd cast of office characters who seem to feed off one another's eccentricities...

Author: By Paul Cantagallo and Patti Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: You Won't Be Able to Read This | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...point stands. There are some absurd moments and even more absurd people in the Harvard student body...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...racial views of the C.C.C. are repugnant to me, and I would never have spoken to the group had I known beforehand of its stand. It is absurd and irresponsible for anyone to suggest that one speech--during which I discussed only the impeachment process, as I was asked to do--implies that I in any way share or support the group's view. As the record shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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