Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what if Godot had arrived? And what if he were even more absurd than the Beckett boys who awaited him? He probably would have come as Valentine Brose, the nonsenstential anti-hero of Henry Livings' balmy farce...
...Even legitimate parental concern for a hemophiliac son's safety can transmit unnecessarily restrictive fears to him. The reaction in either case, says Dr. Agle, can be self-destructive. In an effort to deny his fears, the hemophiliac boy may take what are, for him, absurd risks by jumping from trees, riding motorcycles and even picking fist fights...
Secondly, to think that any "community person" is going to look upon the willful discarding of one's sole protection against the draft as anything but stupid and suspicious is absurd. Even if they don't realize the manifold implications for themselves and their sons, how can they be expected to unite with a rash, unthinking student who says he hates war but throws away his chance to get out of it! How can they think anything about such a student but, "He's crazy...
Tame Lion. Offstage, no project or gimmick was too daring, too dangerous or too absurd for her. She took up sculpture and painting, the piano and writing, pistol shooting and fishing, ballooning and alligator hunting. She went down into a Pennsylvania coal mine, kept a tame lion in her house, and-though she claimed vehemently that she opposed capital punishment-attended a hanging in London, a garroting in Madrid and two beheadings in France. "If there's anything more remarkable than watching Sarah act," observed one admirer, "it's watching her live...
When Altman talked to President Goheen about the University spending more money to change the club system into something more equitable, he got the answer, "Well, you know we're a poor University." As absurd as it seems, Goheen has a point. He seems to be disillusioned with Bicker. He told a Princetonian reporter in November: "There are no valid ways to make sound judgments...people turn to extraneous, superficial things...Students lose their sense of fair play and good sense in Bicker." But Goheen is not willing to sponsor a wholesale change in the club system, or even publicly...