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After three days and nights of argument, Couve exploded in a rare, undiplomatic burst of emotion. "Too much has been asked of France!" he cried. "Solemn engagements have been broken. It's absurd to continue." And with that, he scurried back to report his defeat to an angry De Gaulle. The Elysee Palace issued an ominous ultimatum: France henceforth would boycott all Common Market meetings while its government makes "the studies necessary to draw conclusions from the setback." This was a clear threat to withdraw from the Common Market...
...Never have I been so disgusted by bureaucratic meddling in a state problem as I was with the bracero ban [June 4]. Congressmen sitting 3,000 miles away in Washington take it upon themselves to arbitrarily outlaw braceros. To state unemployment as an argument is absurd. How many of the 440,000 unemployed Californians would stoop to do farm work even at the union wage...
...like a punch, scored a knockout that the referee did not realize was a knockout, and set a record that turned out to be no record. In the process, Cassius clearly established himself as the heavyweight champion of the world and a consummate actor-in the theater of the absurd...
...anyone who saw The Forced Marriage at the Loeb--execute a full turn while balanced bow-legged on the balls of his feet, and time it to match the pace of the scene. He can remain articulate while speaking at absurd speeds, and communicate the rhythm of his speech to the actor he's arguing with, so that the dialogue sounds slightly like a patter song...
...college in Ithaca, N.Y., that looks down on Ivy League Cornell? As recently as five years ago the notion would have been considered absurd. Yet today the 2,200 students of Ithaca College sing that song with considerable spirit -and unquestionable altimetric accuracy. After 73 years as mainly a coed music and physical-education school housed in a seedy assortment of Victorian buildings in downtown Ithaca, the college now occupies 250 windswept acres atop South Hill, where the clean bold lines of its new $30 million, 23-building complex do, indeed, soar high above Cornell...