Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...where talking is taken as a form of action, that theater most often becomes absurd: the shoe banged on the table, the smell of sulfur in the room. Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, star of last year's show, skipped the session this year, perhaps to tend to a new state-owned movie studio designed to help break "the dictatorship of Hollywood." But he did take time out to call his Iranian friend and compliment him for standing up to the Great Satan. And it all occurred in a week when Burmese monks were in the streets risking their lives...
...book that becomes a meta-novel within the text—breaks out to serve as the hero. He yearns for the love of his former muse and mistress, Margarita. She, in turn, makes a Faustian deal with Satan to reunite with her long lost love. What ensues is absurd, intricate, and absolute unforgettable. The book is simultaneously a fairy tale, an epic, a religious allegory, a political satire, and, primarily, a harrowing romance. Yet, despite it’s amalgam of genres, it always maintains a riveting, almost Chekhovian balance between the hilarious and the tragic. For a book...
...their opinions about Israel and its policies." Of course, no such effort among "Israel’s defenders" exists, and, if it did, there would surely be plenty of Jews—self-professed anti-Zionists among them—to undermine it. More important, to believe something as absurd as the idea that all 13 million Jews agree, one would already need to hold ugly views of Jews as conspiratorial and alien. All of this confirms what everyone but Matory already knows: Bigotry is always the fault of bigots, never of its victims...
...designation. But since whatever prestige might once have been attached to designing and teaching a Core class has been destroyed, there is no longer any incentive to improve courses for a dying system. Many professors are understandably unwilling to shoehorn their courses into the Core administration’s absurd one-syllabus-fits-all model, which requires midterms and finals. None of these problems are new—they have been mentioned by students for years and were mentioned by the Task Force on General Education last year. But little to nothing is being done to fix these problems...
...what? To make sure Florida and everyone else adhere to one of the most absurd presidential nominating processes in the free world? It's amusing to hear the DNC big shots argue that if Florida got its way in this case it would invite "chaos" in the primary system. One of the main reasons Florida wanted to move its primary up in the first place was to get ahead of the chaos that already exists. Third World countries like Mexico today hold more modern and truly democratic primaries than America's, whose Iowa- and New Hampshire-centric traditions seem...