Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exam during the tedious hour of waiting before the draft test) the link between the two became more obvious. The mock-exam seemed to be saying, "Concentrate on some of the pertinent questions about the war that we pose instead of sitting here docilely, avoiding the issue by answering absurd Selective Service questions which may be conclusively answered by filling in the little square signifying none of the above." The war, in short, receives a failing grade...
...sources chosen to support the protest position comes from the non-believer who asks why he should listen to SDS's statistical data any more than the figures issued from Washington. The counter exams realizes its potential when it shows the Administration's arguments to be contradictory or simply absurd--this is accomplished on several occasions...
...godforsaken outpost in northern China in the year 1935. Of course, most of the dreadful events thus predicted duly come to pass, and all that remains to arouse sympathy is the plight of some rather interesting actresses, trapped on MGM's chintzy Chinese sound stage with absurd situations, hoked-up direction and dialogue like wet firecrackers...
...prose. His argument that Johnson's plan represents a thinly veiled desire to extend the control of the President over Congress may be valid. But paranoid statements like "the Executive searches with lupine voracity for problem areas that it may entrench itself in yet another sphere of life" are absurd...
...masterpiece of the new manner, a book called simply V. (TIME, March 15, 1963), is an epic of planned irrelevance that Joyce would surely have respected. Unhappily, its successors have contributed little more than absurdity to the novel of the absurd. Constructed on the principle of free dissociation, they occasionally come off as hip happenings. More often, as lamentably illustrated in three novels published last week, they simply degenerate into glossolaliac gibberish...