Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slums who are always fighting a losing battle to make both ends meet. I have mentioned Roxbury and Dorchester because these are the only depressed areas I know of at the time. (Of course, I know that there are very poor people in Cambridge too, but it would be absurd to enumerate all the depressed streets in the area in order to prove that I am sincers.) The CRIMSON implied that the sliding scale was my racist design to humiliate whites ; but it said nothing about my motivation in charging predominantly white civil rights groups the same reduced rate...
...where would it all lead? The Gallup poll last week conducted trial runs between Johnson and Nixon and Johnson and Goldwater, found that the President had overwhelming leads-69% to 24% against Nixon, 75% to 20% against Goldwater. But such polls are patently absurd so early in any election year. And despite growing talk that Johnson can't lose, some ready, willing and eager Republicans were plainly ready to prove it wrong...
...that point, The Easy Life is one of the funniest pictures ever made in Italy-a picaresque podge of Don Quixote and La Dolce Vita, a Tom Jones with jetaway. Gassman is superbly absurd as a sex bomb stuffed with ravioli, and Director Dino Risi faultlessly paces and spaces the fun and games. In its whole intention, however, The Easy Life is clearly more tragic than comic. The party is over before the picture is over. The spectator lifts the last glass of champagne to his lips and finds it full of blood: the blood of a decent, bewildered...
...fitting. One of his pet projects, the Peace Corps, for example, could be rightly rechristened the Kennedy Corps. The Kennedy Memorial Library fund in Boston is also a fair gesture. However, Kennedyana, the Kennedy International Airport, Cape Kennedy, etc., are all exceeding the bounds of respect and entering the absurd...
Whim Creek. The White Australia policy is often carried to absurd, esoteric extremes. Recently, five Japanese technicians employed by a Japanese-controlled mining concern-at, of all places, Whim Creek in Western Australia-were convicted of violating an obscure 1904 law specifying that "no Asiatic or African alien shall be employed in any capacity whatever in or about any mine claim." As a result, Western Australia's state legislature last week repealed the law, but virtually negated its action by adopting an amendment specifying that Asians must still get government permits to work in the mines...