Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That's absurd," said Ted Johnson, an NMC spokesman. "We haven't heard of any plans for violence and we have better contacts on campuses than the FBI." He accused the department of waging a "scare campaign" to discourage protestors from coming to Washington...
...instinct for survival, "you're a Jew, aren't you? If we hadn't joined the fight against Hitler. you probably wouldn't be alive today. "Oh no, says he, "that was in Europe." His attitude then explains, I think, a great deal about his writing now: the glib, absurd equation of Hitler's factories of death and the war in Vietnam; the facile postmortem advice to the Jews of Auschwitz and Treblinka (they should have fought, he thinks, precisely because it would have made no difference) from someone who writes that the only reason he wouldn't blow...
...present laws are "absurd, indecent, immoral, ghastly, and ineffective," said Dr. Leon Eisenberg, professor of Psychiatry. He added that although he views the proposed change as "a step in the right direction," it is "still unsatisfactory...
...plays have much in common. While an occasional effort is made to specify some individual responsibility for crimes, oppressions, injustices, and atrocities, the dominating j'accuse is hurled at the audience. The audience is presumed to be collectively guilty of every misdeed in recorded history. This is patently absurd. By embracing the abstraction of collective guilt, the playwright performs the singularly irresponsible act of absolving the specifically guilty parties involved...
Many people misunderstand action. They think that a more timid action shows a more relative position. It may show an uncertain state of mind. It does not show a firmly committed mind that realizes that the war is, in some absurd simplification, only 60 per cent wrong. If you believe that the war is wrong, it becomes totally wrong when you decide to act. You cannot march with one foot in a YAF parade and the other in an SDS demonstration. Therefore, once the decision to fight is made. it is made absolutely. If that decision is not made...