Word: absurdity
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Part of the wonder of the academy is its unbounded protection of speech. We are all here to discover new ideas and new ways of thinking. Sometimes those ideas are comfortable and familiar. Other times they are radical or even absurd. All of the time they are valuable in expanding our perspectives and allowing us to understand ideas with increased rationality. Summers did us all a service by asking an important question. We may not all agree with the way in which it was asked or share his view on the matter, but we all should acknowledge that if answered...
...articles refer to the awards as “slick p.r.” and “publicity stunts”; in 1973, Crimson arts writer Dwight L. Cramer ’74 wrote, “The publicity engine runs smoothest in the Pudding’s absurd Man and Woman of the Year Awards...
Still, an increasingly large cadre of prominent academics has stepped forward to question the acceptibility of this trend. Famed UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh has posted mildly bitter invective to his weblog slamming court citations of Wikipedia as absurd given the nature of the source, but the most florid prose on the subject comes perhaps from Robert McHenry, chief of the (less and less popular—let’s keep our private interests straight) Encyclopedia Britannica. McHenry has compared Wikipedia to a public restroom: Such a facility may be obviously dirty, he has said, or it may look...
...presentation of Candide] to function as a show within a show. So much of the staging is meant to be a performance within a performance: the set of a movie, or an after-party,” explains Greenhalgh. “We deal with some of the more absurd elements of the opera by saying, ‘This is a show within a show.’ For the parts that feel more real, we bring it back into reality of the theater...
...presentation of Candide] to function as a show within a show. So much of the staging is meant to be a performance within a performance: the set of a movie, or an after-party,” explains Greenhalgh. “We deal with some of the more absurd elements of the opera by saying, ‘This is a show within a show.’ For the parts that feel more real, we bring it back into reality of the theater...