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...criticism. At the same time, though, "John Hancock was not the king of all colonial smugglers," the book asserts. Fowler becomes visibly disturbed by such assaults on Hancock's character. "All the charges that Hancock fomented the war against Britain because she cracked down on his smuggling activities are absurd, and completely groundless," he insists...
...their own space. He also thinks it would be nice if politicians, when pontificating on TV, were forced to wear party hats so that viewers could keep their remarks in perspective. The message is simple: Ye shall know a civilization by its common customs, and if these are mostly absurd, then it is likely that the society's larger principles have gone awry as well. The modern world's institutionalized lunacies are, of course, symbolized by the lavishly subsidized think tank and the mischief it creates...
FIZDALE: I've written hundreds of playlets, especially on trains. I get nervous waiting for the train to pull into Grand Central. The plays were two pages long, a sort of theater of the absurd. Anyway, you live only once, and we wanted to write as well as play the piano. GOLD: Do you want to know the truth? We were on tour, driving through Wyoming, skidding on very icy roads. I said, "I think we ought to get into something else...
Says Cannon: "I've never heard anything more absurd in my life...
...state over the weekend, and hand you your ass on Tuesday." That's how one Carter aide described him in 1976, when Brown upset Jimmy Carter in five primaries. Those victories, astounding for a man who had been governor of California barely six months, are now distant, almost absurd memories...