Word: absurdness
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...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...absurd spending has continued in both boroughs this offseason. Interestingly, the teams seem to be moving in opposite directions. While the Mets have acquired Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran to add to a competent core of veterans and top prospects, the Yankees are slowly but surely becoming a team of overpaid has-beens. The Mets could be the best team in New York in as little as two years...
...exempt properties. The extra $1.7 million that Harvard pays voluntarily under the PILOT is all gravy. We are not at all opposed to the PILOT program as such, but for Cambridge to anxiously squeal for more, instead of graciously acknowledging this gift from one of its largest taxpayers, is absurd. Cambridge will always put voting residents ahead of the students who call the city home, so trying to get more money out of the University is an understandable move; but to pursue this policy relentlessly and arrogantly, to pursue it in the face of a preexisting ten-year agreement, pushes...
...ruling is only the latest hurdle for Jeunet, who has spent more then ten years trying to film A Very Long Engagement, based on Sebastian Japrisot’s best-selling novel. The series of blows in Jeunet’s own home country is particularly absurd given that, aside from an outstanding performance by American actress Jodie Foster, the film is utterly and beautifully French. In fact, her inclusion in the film is obviously the exception to the rule: Jeunet had been adamant that the movie be filmed in French, by a French cast and crew, in France...