Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mohandas Gandhi faced a revolt against his one-man campaign against sex in marriage. One follower, puzzled by Gandhi's exhortations to newlywed disciples to vow "self-restraint until Swaraj [Indian self-rule]," called for an explanation. "To marry thus," he wrote, "is surely an inconsistency. He...
How can we expect a better world when the people of a democracy just sit back and try to repress their anxiety ? The classic joys and sorrows are puny today; the laments of the poets are ridiculous. Men cannot be concerned with the age-old struggle for personal improvement when...
"People tune in dance bands to listen to music, not to be annoyed by gibberish from an announcer who is not prepared, either in script or in wit, to be amusing," he wrote. (What's more: no more gratuitous comment from bandleaders. Said Bulotti: "It sounds ridiculous to have...
During the past 36 years these clashing facts threw off like sparks, bright, brief but sometimes kindling, the enterprises known as little magazines. There were hundreds, a 20th Century phenomenon. Mostly young people published them, wrote for them, read them, fought for them, ruined them, made them ridiculous or triumphant...
After 16 days in court, the bloom was off little Fred Rose. At the start of his conspiracy trial in Montreal, Canada's only Communist member of Parliament had been jaunty. The defense sneered at documentary evidence produced by Igor Gouzenko, former Soviet Embassy cipher clerk, who named Rose...