Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unvaried strangulated hush." Charging to her defense, gallant young Author John Updike first of all pointed out in a letter to the editors that "she is a terrific-looking woman." Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn." Sniffed Kauffmann, in what tellectuals" undoubtedly is like not the Updike, "a last film word: to theater "in is a kind of steam bath or opium den to which one goes for a faintly wicked and figuratively supine little debauch...
President Eisenhower could, at his discretion, restore any part of the sugar cuts, presumably adjusting the amount to the extent of reprisal he deems prudent. Ike's new powers would make sense out of the absurd system whereby the U.S., by paying 5? per lb., is subsidizing the losses that Cuba suffers in exporting sugar to the U.S.S.R. at the below-cost price of 2¼ per lb. in exchange for Russian crude oil. Cuba's quota would be shifted to other regular foreign suppliers...
George Bolton and Ed O'Callahan as Cerebro and Soma make believably solid citizens, and they can say absurd things without blinking an eyelash, which is what the play requires. Fred Morehouse and Endo seemed overly conscious of himself as an actor last night, where the apparent consciousness of the others was of their stage personages, rather than their off-stage personalities. Randy Echols' Visionary has little to do (which is very difficult for an actor to do well) and Echols is fine at it. He has a touching moment of pathos and beauty at the end of the play...
...Third Act. The rebirth of Manichaeism can be seen in the theater. Modern tragedy attaches "a very dubious quality of worthlessness, threat, evil, absurdity, to the whole world of situation and existence . . . How often in our generation have we seen the tragic protagonist who is cursed by the necessity of walking, victim and innocent, through an insane world. We need only recall such plays as Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, Paul Green's Johnny Johnston, or Anderson's Key Largo and Winterset, while Sartre gave a definitive formulation, in theory and on the stage...
...York City last week, a manifesto turned up calling for a DEMONSTRATION. It was signed by two relatively unknown representational painters who were fed up with what seemed to them to be the Museum of Modern Art's lopsided patronage of the abstract, the sensational, and even the absurd. The museum, said the document, "has developed the public image of the painter as a madly inspired child, rather than an adult human being...