Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generals Without Buttons (Forrester-Parant), a French film, has all the suave savvy of the French. Its Gallic point: that the things boys do are no more absurd than the things men do, especially in love & war. With the polished simplicity of a parable, the frugal neatness of good homespun, and a cast of eager, fresh child actors, Generals Without Buttons retells in cinema the gently satirical story that young French Author Louis Pergaud told in La Guerre des Boutons, shortly before he went to his death at Verdun...
...time the government has spent millions on the W.P.A. for different public works as well as for unemployed professionals. It cannot hope to abolish "glaring inequalities" in the fullest sense without establishing a similar administration to take care of the funds now destined for state commissions. For it is absurd to think that appropriations that are granted to Southern states will be used for negro as well as white education. It is absurd to think that politicians in states having a large Catholic population will not for electioneering purposes uselessly support well-endowed parochial schools. It is absurd to think...
Between its lines readers get a clear picture of the moral and cultural changes in the South in the ten years that the book covers, the questioning of old customs by little Confederates like Bayard, the persistence of old Southern conventions in situations that make them absurd. Thus, although Cousin Drusilla and John Sartoris have gone to war together, lived in military encampments, rebuilt the plantation, fought carpetbaggers, they cannot hold out against the good ladies of Jefferson. In the midst of domestic disorder, while Sartoris is killing two Republicans and holding an election at gun's point...
Dieffenbach dismissed as "absurd." Half of the rest were chiefly bothered by the above-mentioned frustrations. Personal problems such as whom to marry ranked second in this group. A "sense of sin," which used to worry New Englanders, appeared no longer to do so appreciably; it ranked ninth and last among inner problems...
...relationship by shibboleths, superstition, fear. Produced in Poland with native players as passionately sincere as if their own souls were involved. The Dybbuk presents a painstaking picture of the weary search for eternal peace by a people for whom the earth holds little, affords an insight into the absurd involvements that are the accretions of simple faith...