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Leaving aside the rhetorical thrust concerning "moralism of the critics," I note that Huntington's criticism of the Administration and his dig at the "unwarranted optimism of the advocates" is all the more absurd since some of his own opinions were no more than "misplaced optimism," as we see from the passage quoted in section 3. Indeed, Robert D. Putnam in his PS article states that Huntington was guilty of "misplaced optimism about the effects of American-sponsored forced draft urbanization' on the prospects for South Vietnamese resistance to the Communist insurgency...
Such open splits are still rare, but the new Afrikaner discontent is having its effect even on politicians loyal to Botha. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no relation to the President) told an election rally this month that some of the social restrictions of apartheid are absurd. "I cannot understand," he said, "how you can stand in a lift with a black man with a toolbox in his hand, but when he puts on a suit you want nothing to do with...
After Magritte, which opens the evening, is a half hour-long exposition of the punchline to some joke based on a mildly obscure Magritte painting. A couple (Andrew Goldfarb and Susan Clafin) engaged in an absurd series of interior-decorating sight gags tries to reason out an event--possibly a crime--they saw in the street earlier that day. Standing in their cluttered set, they argue back and forth; if anyone fails to consider this unusual, Goldfarb's senile mother (Betsy Menes) intermittently plays the tuba to ensure a properly surrealist feel...
When the Texas jury first pronounced the verdict against Texaco, the sum was so enormous that it seemed absurd. The award appeared certain to be reduced drastically on appeal. Almost no one believed that Pennzoil, the 200th largest U.S. industrial corporation (1986 sales: $1.78 billion) and the 20th biggest oil company, would be allowed to topple a titan about 18 times its size. But Texaco soon learned that it was dangerously vulnerable to an unusual provision of Texas law. In this case, it required Texaco to post a bond for roughly the full amount of the judgment while the company...
...know the concept may strike you as absurd, but because of my unique position as a fanatical observer of Harvard hockey, I felt it was my duty to present the first (so far as I know) All-Hockey Team...