Word: absurdity
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...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...pleasure. I tell myself that reading them does nothing to my self-esteem; I’m a confident, healthy young woman who has better things to do than measure her waistline or weekend planner by the monthly dos and don’ts page. I find the advice absurd and the trends contradictory from one issue to another. Writing this column has allowed me to scrutinize this harmless habit of mine until it has come to seem a bit harmful. Each column has been my attempt to wrestle the hysteria of beauty and fashion into some logical space, laughing...
...proposal to ask the administration to ask professors to ask Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) officers to approve their courses for ROTC credit is an absurd and underhanded attempt to show support for the discriminatory institution itself. The Staff’s notion that this declaration is somehow balanced—by making life easier for the cadets while remaining neutral on the ultimate status of ROTC at Harvard—ignores the crucial fact that encouraging University interaction with ROTC officials is a tacit endorsement for ROTC itself...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and Perspective’s recent use of the now-defunct Pi Eta fraternity in their information on final clubs is wholly irresponsible; to hold final clubs in any way responsible for the shortcomings of an organization which was not a final club is absurd. It merely helps to perpetuate an unfair depiction of the existing clubs and to ensure that no productive discussion will ever occur on the topic. Furthermore, it is unwise and unfair to assume that final clubs somehow create a culture that would not exist in their absence. It does...