Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife spotted Folksinger Joan Baez on a train, they greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting on a plane. "It's an absurd way to travel," she explains. "One is bound to feel claustrophobic-no one was meant to be 35,000 feet up in the air." Says Comedian Bob Newhart: "I take white-knuckle flights. I have a couple of drinks before, a couple during the flight-and then I sit there...
...charge was absurd and mischievous, but it got a wide audience. Disturbed by evidence of anti-Semitism among Negroes that came with the ghetto riots-when Jewish shops were selectively burned-many Jews felt outrage at both Rhody McCoy and Lindsay, who had championed decentralization. The city's atmosphere, said Lindsay in a citywide TV address, "has in the last week degenerated into intolerable racial and religious tension." William Booth, chairman of the city's Human Rights Commission, was even more specific: "Every day this strike goes on, things are getting worse. You can sense there is much...
...seemed a characteristic remark--an absurd refusal to concede that the very people that he is continually attacking don't really hate him. Marshall Frady, in his new biography of Wallace, describes Wallace's pathetic efforts to convince Alabama Negroes to support him, or at least to convince himself that they did: at one ponit, Wallace is quoted as telling a group of Negro educators, just before the 1966 campaign for governor, "Now I get out speakin' to folks, don't pay any attention to what I say, 'cause I'm gonna have to fuss...
...BRITISH army which Richardson depicts is one where command is based on wealth rather than merit, and army life is ruled by absurd traditions and savage discipline. This is the army of which Lord Cardigan (Trevor Howard), the man who was to lead the charge of the Light Brigade, is the symbol: the film's Cardigan is a cantakerous old fool who purchased his command, and squandered it with the evil courage of a suicide-victim...
...blusters and fumbles, he forgets the simplest things, and he carries unreasoning insistence on detail and perfection to an impossible excess. Of course, the film is being billed as a kind of epic-satire, and this kind of excess is the staple of satire. But to satirize history is absurd. A historical film can only try to depict and explain; satire is meant to correct, and history cannot be corrected. For this reason Richardson is at his worst when he attempts to satirize the Victorian establishment, and unfortunately, he attempts this rather often...