Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students seems either uninterested in or scornful of the sexual-freedom movement. Stanford Junior Suzanne Lefranc condemns the Forum for "turning sex into a personal joke-selling lapel buttons with snickering slogans." And Berkeley's Jerry Goldstein, president of the campus student government, calls it all "so absurd that I don't think students are paying attention to it." As for any legal action against licentiousness at house parties, Berkeley Police Chief Addison Fording contends that he cannot arrest anyone unless someone present files a complaint...
...smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint, and a local society editor (Zoe Caldwell), who seems to have escaped from a flour barrel. Miss Caldwell is an auspicious new acting presence on Broadway. But the play is a rubber-dagger stab at theater of the absurd that lacks lonesco's lunacy or Pinter's menace. It seems to have come less from Williams' pen than from his penwiper...
...Your Essay accurately states the absurd, puritanical and self-defeating nature of most divorce statutes. But forced reconciliation negotiations before a civil servant are as much an affront to adults as present divorce laws. Respect for the dignity of the individual and for his right to terminate an intimate relationship is more important than the benefits of mass counseling...
...spheres of moral choice." And Bertrand de Jouvenel has suggested that various types of future should be portrayed on TV, allowing the public to vote in a referendum on "the future of your choice." The chief message of the futurists is that man is not trapped in an absurd fate but that he can and must choose his destiny-a technological reassertion of free will...
...audience at Columbia University's second Elmer Davis Memorial lecture: "It might be all right for a program like Danny Kaye's or Lucille Ball's to have a star. But when this system is carried over into television's coverage of news, it is absurd, irrelevant and inappropriate. It may be that Huntley, Cronkite and I are the last of a type." Good night, David...