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...Brophy-"I" falls in with a number of atrocities: a TV quiz show whose panel attempts to discover the favorite perversions of its guests; lesbian and youth rebellions; a nun hunt, and a plane crash engineered to secure human organs for transplants. In such an environment, rationalism mutates into absurd rationalization. Like rebellious cancer cells, words metastasize into puns and compound forms that lead destructive lives of their...
...bloody border wars that plagued South America in the 19th century. In its founding meeting in 1963, the 41-nation Organization of African Unity adopted in principle the concept that the borders should remain as they are. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere said, "Our boundaries are so absurd that they must be regarded as sacrosanct." By the same token, the O.A.U. has also condemned secessionist movements. Only four member nations recognized Biafra; two of them, Tanzania and Zambia, did so only as an unsuccessful ploy to facilitate a negotiated settlement of the conflict...
...citizens of Massachusetts will have to foot the bill for a 20 to 30 million dollar stadium. It is ridiculous in a Commonwealth so badly pressed with critical needs for education, mental health, and programs for the poor to spend money on a sports stadium. It is even more absurd when you consider that our university has taken so much from that same Commonwealth...
...aren't more of the people with the guerrillas? For an outsider, to pose the question moralistically is absurd. As Norm Diamond, author of "Why They Shoot Americans" ( Nation, Feb. 5, 1968), has said, the Indians' "allegiance is not to the military, nor to the guerrillas, but to themselves. If the military will give them a well (pacification program, only for insurgent areas), they'll take it, and if the guerrillas are going to increase their food, then they'll back them." (CRV, op, cit., Panel Transcript...
...theatre, whether in form or content," Edelson had told me. His direction and the spontaneous creativity of his cast achieved the former, and the substance of Brecht's play guaranteed the latter. The story uses two major vignettes, tied together by a denouement that verges on theatre of the absurd, to depict the tortuous battles of a peasantry ravaged by imperial oppression and revolution...