Word: absurdly
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...when the actors can't control their movement, the effect is alternately annoying and absurd. Dan Deitch as Yang Sun, the unemployed flyer, just tries to do too much with his body. He contorts across the stage, face grimacing and body tensed. Everyone knows that Yang is a bastard, so Shen Te's love for him can only be based on sheer sex appeal. Deitch, by equating gruffness and stiff limbs with masculinity makes his appeal to Shen Te incomprehensible...
...weeks the publishers and the Newspaper Guild had predicted that New York's newly merged World Journal Tribune would be struck before it had a chance to go into operation. Absurd as it seemed, that is exactly what happened last week. Negotiation of key issues-number of employees to be retained, severance pay and seniority-came to a standstill. "Neither side has made any definite offer," said World Journal Tribune President Matt Meyer. "We are still too far apart." The publishers characterized union demands as "extortionate"; the unions called the publishers' offer "peanuts...
...have brattishly proclaimed their principal preoccupations: LSD, pot, the Spirit of Berkeley, californication, and not fighting in Viet Nam. While there are only a few of them, they have begun to produce a noisy literature that confesses its mongrel origin in the cult of hip, the theater of the absurd, the works of Jack Kerouac, the pop art movement and some of the more deplorable traditions of the college humor magazine...
...masterpiece of the new manner, a book called simply V. (TIME, March 15, 1963), is an epic of planned irrelevance that Joyce would surely have respected. Unhappily, its successors have contributed little more than absurdity to the novel of the absurd. Constructed on the principle of free dissociation, they occasionally come off as hip happenings. More often, as lamentably illustrated in three novels published last week, they simply degenerate into glossolaliac gibberish...
...compromise solution would also settle grievances created by the present plan. "Substantial," that absurd, undefinable term, would be banished from the system. Freshmen could all have a chance to express their wishes without mulling over whether or not they had "substantial" reasons. At worst, the present requirements encourage freshmen who have no real reasons to invent them. The system would provide more opportunity for both Master and student choice, in itself a good thing. Choice should be valued for its own sake, whether it is choice of a field concentration or choice of a time...