Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow, dogmatic view in the guise of universality. Robert Bresson is French and Catholic (the Brattle also touts him as "a former painter, a maverick, a mystic, and a solitary"); his pre-war Diary of a Country Priest, even at its most honest, often seems wildly improbable and faintly absurd...
...simple fact is that present tutorial programs make a good portion of the debate over tutorial absurd. In addition, staff limitations are providing either reason or excuse for focusing Social Relations increasingly on research, and emphasizing economic theory instead of a more general non-scholarly approach. The situation is difficult, the departments have no plans for change, and the prognosis is poor...
...this ethic of resignation persists in the end. It is not the cultural masochism that appears in many novels about the Jews. Rather it is a despairing admission that, absurd as it may be, "that's how it is". Ernie Levy dosen't have a choice. In Hitler's world there is no such thing as "assimilation." Ernie puts his yellow Star of David on with pleasure. "He had no intention of glorifying himself, of separating himself from the humble procession of the Jewish people." He has learned, through his suffering, that he has a moral obligation to himself...
...rebels would maintain economic ties with France "because of the natural flow of goods between the two countries and because it would be absurd to de stroy existing markets." But soothing words do not obscure some ultimate goals: the nationalization of Algerian banks, the conversion of European vineyards to Moslem wheat fields, and the expropriation of large, European-owned estates, which will then be parceled out to Moslem farmers...
...married and none of them fond of the old man. His avowed purpose is to make up his mind with which one of them he will live. From this homely, commonplace situation, Elliott contrives a remarkably interesting series of confrontations that range from the serious to the sadly absurd...