Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...send their sons to college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
...would be few to praise it. But this is hardly likely. It is far more to be expected that it will alleviate the pangs of transition between one method and the other. That such a radical change as this could be effected with no academic mortality it would be absurd to comtemplate, and the gradual substitution, of the new reading period for lectures should do much to reduce this mortality...
...Corsican, he had been sent to France to a military school because his parents were too poor to keep him at home. He brooded?shy, taciturn, lonely?while scions of the frivolous French nobility laughed at him. He wrote absurd fiction; he contemplated suicide. "Everything goes awry," said he to his diary. Then a long-smoldering idea flared up in his mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution...
...definition, that he learned to say YEA to everything in life. Nietzsche, by understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly exercise free inquiry in all matters. You may reject his philosophy as absurd and impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce personality that so ruthlessly slashed at Christianity, democracy, feminism, and modern morality, that held up as ideals the Will to Power and the honest, fearless, cruel, yea-sayings superman. Ecce Homo! The critic and destroyer...
Mozart is as perfect as a Fragonard, and as naughty. That it is historically absurd matters not at all. That it may even miss the spirit of the composer almost fails to matter. All that seems of lasting importance is that Mile Printemps should have the most perfect, manicoloured bubble over which to dance ever so lightly and never too long. With that and the master of ceremonies air of M. Guitry in their pocket the audience goes away well pleased...