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...broken home. The very values for which the disciple family stands are, essentially, those values that the youth of today is intent upon rejecting. The value judgment that girls are not given contraceptives because they are more interested in becoming women than in sleeping around, is an absurd answer to the so-called sex problem of the generation. It is not an assessment of the problem, it is a denial of its existence and of its causes. I feel sure that if I had to "build a telescope" with the entire family, I would be driven to sleeping around...
...main complaint against prior censorship is that it is an unjustified restraint on intellectual freedom and encourages timidity in theological speculation. The imprimatur itself has been put to uses that verge on the absurd...
What William James called the "rich thicket of reality" is thoroughly explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially...
...Japanese press had lost some of its exhalted respect for the sensei (honored teacher). In more and more circles of the Japanese government, there was unflattering talk of the "two Reischauers" -- the diplomat who defended his government's Asian policy inflaggingly and the scholar who harbored serious doubts about "absurd" tragedies like the war in Vietnam...
...disgust with swamps and rice paddies and Viet Cong by refusing to tackle the larger problems of the most heavily-populated continent. As more and more Asian nations gain a sense of national identity, a new attack of American isolationism would trigger a reaction more tragic than all the absurd Vietnams and Laoses put together