Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...messiah of the implied positive, whose generally malevolent characters actually yearn steadily for God. Other critics have said that in this century of despair, no more despairing voice-they variously compare it to lonesco's and even Brecht's-has rolled through the black caverns of the absurd...
...friend of Communism, but he hopes somehow to make it possible for the 63 million Catholics behind the Iron Curtain to preserve their freedom of worship. The church, argues one close associate of the Pope's, is not "a dam against Communism. This is an entirely absurd concept. The church should not be against anything. It should be positively for something. When we support only one bloc we alienate half of humanity...
...extra tax of 8½?-a Ib. on imported cotton textiles (which are already saddled with a 14?-a-lb. tariff). But last week the Tariff Commission turned Kennedy down. By a vote of 3 to 2. the commission decided that it would be a bit absurd to establish an import tax to offset an export subsidy which had been established to offset a price support...
...Soblen affair recalled flickering old movies about improbable tangled doings in imaginary European principalities. Movies of that kind always included slices of villainy to provide dramatic interest-but the sinister kept getting swamped in the absurd...
Miss Boron will be disappointed if she expects her addled theory to have the impact Hans David's did when he hit on a solution to the structure of Bach's Musical Offering. Her "dramatic exegesis" is so demonstrably absurd on dozens of grounds that there is no point in embarking on a full-scale refutation here (or anywhere...