Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. In a chaotic but painfully fascinating self-analysis, a leading playwright of the Theater of the Absurd discusses the neurotic roots...
...American revolutionaries"-among them anarchists and Maoists, hard-core members of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, and Students for a Democratic Society-many of them veterans of the October March on the Pentagon. There was the Youth International Party (yippies), minions of the absurd whose leaders failed last fall to levitate the Pentagon but whose antics at least leavened the grim seriousness of the New Leftists with much-needed humor. And then there were the young McCarthy workers, the "Clean for Gene" contingent who had shaved beards, lengthened miniskirts and turned on to political...
...seen in 1904 at an exhibition of French art, critics reluctantly concluded that the style was not Clouet and that the lady did not look like Diane. Most recently, a Paris scholar claimed that the lady resembled Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Director Rich calls that opinion "moonshine" and "absurd." His thesis: "All three paintings go back to a lost original, perhaps by Clouet...
Most people readily exchange their nightly dreams for what passes as reality in the morning papers. Not Eugéne Ionesco. The celebrated playwright of the absurd prefers to dwell on his own private late late shows...
...stage, with the forgetful dreamer shaped by Ionesco's sharp sense of the absurd, the predicament might be painfully funny. But on the page, with the writer as a troubled man snarled in the neurotic roots of his art, the situation is painfully embarrassing. It would be convenient if Ionesco were not such a compelling case of what Nietzsche, that specialist in soul diseases, diagnosed as an allergy to oneself...