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...absurd to attribute modesty to anyone in the egomaniacal world of show biz. Yet a certain diffidence adhered to Crosby even as a celebrity. In his artistry, he owned the natural jazzman's gift of blending with rather than blaring against an ensemble of fellow performers-a knack never used better than in the scatty and mellow duets (Gone Fishin', for one) that he recorded with Armstrong. A similar trait made his private life seem actually private in contrast to the typical Hollywood star's. He had his troubles, heartbreak at times in his marriage to hard...
...these complaints regarding the admission of minorities to American medical schools [Sept. 26], unjustly excluding white students with higher academic standards are absurd. I am an American studying medicine in Italy, and I was denied admission at home because of the enormous number of applicants...
Insists one Carter national security aide: "It's absurd to think that the Russians are going to give up ICBMS in exchange for three words?'legitimate Palestine rights'?on a piece of paper. Linking the two just shows Israel's paranoia." Defending the declaration, the Administration points to the significant Soviet concessions embodied in it: acknowledgment by Moscow for the first time of the Israeli demand for "true peace," omission of any specific reference to the P.L.O., acceptance of an Israeli veto over the nature of any international guarantees of the ultimate borders. In its effort to knock down...
Rudolph Valentino was among the most put-upon of movie stars. Forced to live in-and with-a screen persona that could not have been at wider variance from his true spirit; bearing the crushing load of fame in an era unfamiliar with violations of privacy; bewildered by two absurd marriages and harassed by studio bosses intent on protecting their "property" at the expense of the man, he provides the stuff of primal screen drama...
...time when many Americans are failing to confront the imperialistic impulses that led us deeper and deeper into Vietnam, his most timely. Under Wizeman's cold, documentary gaze, American "Zonies" who are zealously protecting our "sovereignty" over the canal appear as a pack of super-patriotic crazies -- absurd if they didn't seem all so familiar...