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...fall, but last' week he refused to include Anderson. "Why should I debate two Republicans simultaneously?" Carter said in a TV interview. In fact, he is afraid of giving Anderson added status. Reagan promptly offered to debate Anderson as well as Carter, and Kennedy scoffed that it was "absurd to pretend" Anderson is not a serious candidate...
Carter deserves the most blame for irresponsibly aggravating war fever; his absurd statement that the invasion of Afghanistan constituted the gravest threat to world peace since World War II has become a sitting target for commentators. But behind Carter's hysteria stands a serious policy of confrontation with the Soviet Union that makes no sense internationally, though plenty for Carter's domestic political survival...
...misshapen and often deliberately ungrammatical Russian has both rewards and dangers. Most of the Russian adages come across powerfully--as when the distraught mayor cries, "I have outlived my own mind!"--but occasionally lines fail to connect ("Both have fallen finger-first in heaven"). Gogol's sense of the absurd surfaces frequently and effectively in this translation, too--as in Khlestakov's repeated avowal that various important officials are "on a friendly foot with me." But the constant jumbling and inversion of sentence order sometimes gives the impression that the translation is simply clumsy. Intentionally or not, many characters sound...
...Everest or flying over the Grand Canyon. "It's sublime," they say. "You can't describe it." But true to the old cliche, winning in the Ivy League has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, and it's time we stepped back and realized just how absurd the game we're playing has become...
...over the nature of Stalinism, which Camus deplored. Sartre led demonstrations, fired off protests and manned almost every political barricade raised by the left. Ironically, his most conspicuous disciples-the young, the bitter and the cynical-did little or nothing and understood Sartre least. Had he not proclaimed life absurd, reality nauseating and man free-of moral laws, religious commandments, restricting obligations either to ideals or family? The long-haired beatniks became part of Sartre's mystique...