Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never in History." As for Ford's criticism of the supply bottleneck, McNamara told the Senate committee: "It is absurd. We are supplying fresh meat and fresh vegetables to feed our troops. We are supplying 9.2 pounds per man per day of PX supplies. How could you talk of a shipping shortage under those conditions?" The Defense Secretary also pointed out that the U.S. had moved 100,000 men 10,000 miles in less than four months-a feat unprecedented in military logistics. There are now 325,000 combat-ready U.S. troops in Southeast Asia, 245,000 of them...
...Mass by Adrienne Kennedy has a dramatic intensity that Axminster lacks. It is an allegory--a la Theatre of the Absurd--about the corrupting influence of Catholicism, represented by a girl dressed in white, and the evil in modern life, symbolized by a procession of Nazis who troop back and forth behind the set. What saves it from the woodenness of most allegories is the performance of James Spruill as Brother...
Alan King, director of Adams House's All's Well That Ends Well finds it "absurd" to try to produce 12 shows in one academic year. Munger feels the same way. He would like to see House productions in the Loeb only if "the House staff can be moved in, and do what they like; sure they would make mistakes, but they will learn from them...
People are also poorly treated in municipal housing projects, Gellhorn added. "The process for expelling people from public housing is perfectly absurd and something should be done about it," he said...
Because Advocate writers have imitated all of literati for the past hunters, Culler has tried to tell the magazine's history by tracing the impact of literary innovations on undergraduate writers. This kind of literary history is absurd, because, although Harvard undergraduates are imitative, they are not au courant. Usually the Advocate was reactionary and rejected new kinds of expression until they had received world approbation. The Advocate ignored Eliot, Pound, and Cummings until 1930, considering itself "the heroic defender of an unchanging literary standard." It's just now warming up to Ginsberg and the Dionysion-Apollonian poetry squabble...