Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel like we are losing something that it was absurd to want in the first place. When your are in the Class of 1969, and you have told everyone who you are and why you do things, then you feel disillusioned with the world that you are facing. You feel disillusioned because someone has taken your illusions away. But there are others...
...Expedition are the minds of Gene Clark, Doug Dillard, and Bernie Leadon, who wrote all but one of the songs. While keeping the traditional framework, they have thrown in an electric guitar and drums on one cut, electric harpsichord on several, and more importantly, a sense of the absurd...
Parody has a point only if those who are doing the parody are fully capable of doing whatever it is they parody and then if they only make slight changes, which are meaningful rather than merely absurd. Following this logic, almost all parodies of, say, fifties rock'n'roll are just stupid. Bad singing and bad sound simply doesn't parody something that's musically better. The Lampoon's earlier record, "The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium," was a drag; the Mothers of Invention records are great. "The Surprising Sheep and Other Mind Excursions" is very good...
...recent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the upheaval it caused may put domestic recovery ahead of foreign adventure for some time to come. Even before the Cultural Revolution, China was too weak in air, sea and industrial power to sustain a modern war much beyond its borders. However absurd it may seem to Americans, the Chi nese regard their actions in Korea and Viet Nam as defensive, and those in Tibet and India as attempts to regain territory that all Chinese (including the exiled Nationalists) have long claimed...
Without a false drop of sentimentality, the author lets Father Conroy die as he lived: an absurd misfit. Power can afford the risk, and not just because he is so brilliantly in control of his story. In his Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...