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...
...billion endowment—more than the gross national product of some countries. The living wage in Cambridge is $10.25 per hour. Harvard can more than afford this, and the idea that it took a 21-day protest for the University to even consider a living wage is absurd...
...point of mocking the bite-size electoral messages the opposition leader has plastered on billboards across the nation. In one sketch, her Berlusconi reveals the secret of his political success. "I got it from advertising," she has him say. "You choose your message and, even if it seems absurd at first, you repeat it on TV, in books, in newspapers, and after a bit it seems normal. Here's my latest: A clean Premier for a clean country." Despite her popularity in the role of Berlusconi, Guzzanti has other things on her mind these days. Ironically, she's not getting...
...Blue Dress supposedly tells the story of a woman born on January 1, 1900, but we eventually figure out that it’s just Bruno talking, and talking faster and faster the further along we get. He seems to be in a hurry. The novel takes a wholeheartedly absurd stab at the memoir genre, and, according to its own publicity materials, succeeds admirably (as books always do in publicity handouts). The life of the century through the life of this woman with the little blue dress, as it were. The memoir of this “woman?...