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...Whitney Griswold. It was the start of a long friendship that grew closer when Brewster became chairman of the Yale Daily News, found Griswold a stimulating source of information about the university and a spirited conversationalist on politics. "We had a common sense of the ridiculous and the absurd," Brewster says...
...Homecoming. It is no accident that Pinter adapted Mosley's earlier novel for the movies. For both writers, ambiguity is truth itself. And for Mosley's characters, a mere problem of survival is too simple. The reader who follows the course of Assassins to its appropriately absurd end will be rewarded by a sophisticated plot, a cartographer's awareness of English landscape and a wealth of similes that are nearly as good as Mary McCarthy's. But characters, action, society? Hardly...
...confusion is understandable in a decade which has seen theatrical fashions vary more radically than the hemline. As soon as one catch-all grouping of dramatic trends has gained popular acceptance, another has come charging out of Europe to overtake it: Theatre of Alienation, Theatre of the Absurd, Theatre of Menace, Theatre of Cruelty, Theatre of Fact.... The list promises to be continued as long as publishers find it convenient to anthologize...
...statement that the state of Israel has never seriously tried to make peace with the Arabs is absurd on its face in light of the repeated appeals by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and by his predecessor, David Ben-Gurion, for a peace meeting between Israel and the Arab states, a meeting repeatedly rejected by Nasser and other Arab leaders...
...collectivized, automatic non-person or blow him back to the jungle. The Myth of the Machine is hybrid literature-part history, part anthropology, part poetry. It is a violent, splenetic attack on much that has happened in civilization for the past several millennia, and it occasionally approaches the absurd. But the range of its erudition and imagination makes it good intellectual entertainment. It is a book to start arguments and speculation...