Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Basically, today's undergraduate rebels hope to be taken seriously as a responsible voice in shaping their university-which means influencing basic policy decisions, securing better teachers, helping create a more meaningful curriculum, and insisting on autonomy in their personal lives. None of these requests are at all absurd...
...ineradicable genius for evil has reduced the doctrine of social engineering to puny tinkering. Playwrights like Beckett, lonesco and Genet have abandoned admonitory Ibsenite finger-waving for a nerve-shattering look into the abyss of existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered Miller obsolete by altering the central focus of theater from sociology to metaphysics...
...about it, his records just before the last one were almost restricted in the way he stuck to hard electric sound and dirty big-city imagery. The messages of the songs on Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited were generally pessimistic and unloving, though it's almost totally absurd to generalize about any group of Dylan's songs...
...Saying that Updike is not in the mainstream of contemporary American letters is manifestly absurd. Since when is creativity governed by conformity? Updike would not deign to wade in Mailer's muddied mainstream. Updike, in his personal life and his writings, is a lover. Mailer, in both, is a hater...
...Tarbox Congregational Church is struck by lightning. Only the gold weathercock on the spire, the symbol of God's watchful but now indifferent eye, is spared in the ensuing fire. Eventually even this emblem is hauled down from its pinnacle. Placed in the hands of the Church's absurd minister it is found to measure only "five feet from beak to tail feathers; the copper penny of his eye was tiny...