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Some of his comparative passages, such as his juxtaposing of colors in Western painting with tonal effects in Western music, read almost like free association. Any number of critics could call these comparisons absurd or mystical balderdash. But Spengler has the power to challenge the reader's imagination, as critics of that type usually have not, and he will probably survive them all even if all of them are right...
...Considering it's the most difficult summer ever to get a job, the idea is absurd", Douglas E. Schoen '74, a first-year student, said yesterday...
...holiday," Pamela S. Becker '80, who attended the conservative-reformed services at PBH, said yesterday, adding, "It's so absurd...
Still, for all its absurd complexities, Cussler's plot line is not what finally kills his book. Credible plots are not necessarily the stuff of which good mysteries are made; anyone who believes otherwise should take a long look at the marvelously improbable tales of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. What distinguishes Cussler's attempt from a genuinely good mystery a la Holmes or Poirot is the author's singular inability to create any distinctively human characters. Cussler's figures are worse than wooden: the neurotic physicist, dashing American agent, villainous Russian spy and confused but loving heroine...
...popularity and Disneyfication, Tinker Bell & Co. were ultimately reduced to trademarks or synonyms for homosexuals. The supernatural was obviously not long for this world. Until now. In Kingdoms of Elfin, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner, 83, never condescends to an ethereal race that views mortals as "unfailingly serious and unfailingly absurd." Instead, she talks about fairies without being fey and creates a texture for the intangible...