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...matter to whom it was extended) reminds me of a very similar situation a few short months ago with the rescinding of the invitation to speak extended to Mr. William Shockley by the Harvard Law School Forum. Even more so now than last fall, The Crimson has taken the absurd and awkward position that the Class Day committee (who I presume represents the entire class', and not just The Crimson's political leanings) tell one of the most respected men in the United States that his alma mater is no longer interested in hearing from...
Berman yesterday labeled the proposed law "absolutely absurd...
...would be based on Reserve Mining's willingness to clean up its operations. On the trial's final day, Reserve Chairman C. William Verity said that the company would build a $172 million on-land disposal system-provided it got federal financial assistance. Lord called his proposal "absurd." He ordered "an immediate curtailment of the discharges." In order to comply, the company really did briefly shut down its Silver Bay plant...
...This is absurd stuff they are saying, and--" Ruddigore is by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Schwenk Gilbert. It's about a witch's curse which dooms the hero to commit a crime a day, rather like some political figures, but being more ingenious than they, he finds a way out. Listen for the madrigal in the first-act finale--in fact, if only because it may be Gerald Moshell's last show here, you might listen to it all. Opens tonight at 8:30 at Agassiz...
...across America, thousands of little schoolchildren have been ordered to board countless numbers of buses to be carried across neighborhood, city, and county lines in order to achieve some magical racial mixing of bodies which satisfies the arbitrary and absurd sociological notions of misguided federal judges and bureaucrats. In Michigan, in Maryland, in North Carolina, in Virginia, and in many other states--north, south, east and west--some of our federal courts have defied the very meaning of "equal protection of the law" by assigning and transporting helpless schoolchildren on the basis of race, creed, and color...