Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate vote; the actual bill was tied up in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Holland's tactics stirred the brief wrath of Georgia's Richard Russell, leader of the fight against the amendment. Cried Russell: "We are adopting an absurd, farfetched, irrational, unreasonable and unconstitutional method to get this amendment." Then Russell subsided and Holland's motion carried...
Walter Keer, of the Herald Tribune, found it "an anti-feminist demonstration scored for in bugles, toy drums, and kazoos." He thought Kopit "slavishly indebted to his predecessors in the Theatre of the Absurd," but said he "is easily articulate, sometimes graceful even, and the mists that drift by have a way of taking what may be their most natural and frightening bodily shape." Kerr was ecstatic about the performers...
...speak on matters which concern him. Freedom of speech is in no way subordinate to any other freedoms, including the freedom to do research on a topic of one's own choosing. The suggestion that criticism be satisfied in order to protect investigators from public pressure is simply absurd, and we find it hard to believe that it was offered seriously. Where an individual feels that he sees an ethical problem, he has not only the right but the duty to present it for discussion. We know that the members of the academic community cherish this opportunity as an important...
...nuclear game obviously remains what it always has been: complex, paradoxical, and fundamentally absurd. If there lies a persuasive characteristic in the President's speech beyond the tightness of his logic, it is an air of genuineness in his statement that he is tired of the game. His talk of tests stayed clear of the rhetoric of struggle largely because he would very much prefer that the struggle be carried on without nuclear weapons. When the U.S. proposes a test ban treaty at the 18-nation disarmament conference next month, Kennedy promised that its demands will be realizable and sensible...
...sword battles, and even the most passionate of declamations have gradually become dry word arias in a static opera without music. Zeffirelli has changed that. His direction is fresh and fluid despite the inherent difficulties in a play that begins in the stars then plods to an absurd conclusion underground...