Word: surd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mystique as well. Neither really modern nor really traditional, neither daring nor conservative, the house spills over with the wealth and the glitter and the grand irrationalities of myth and legend that together form the compelling unreality of opera itself, a dream world of the Theater of the Surd...
...life sentence for most other types. Thus a man could still be hanged if he stole from as well as killed his victim, or if he killed a policeman or a prison official, or more than one person, but not for other forms of murder. This resulted in ab surd situations where a killer who slew little children got away with imprisonment; yet if he took as little as a shilling from his victims, he was hanged...
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as an irritant" IMav 2]. He has succeeded in ir-ritatL many people,
including mysetf, into ?toSSStKiP«f the Southern -aa viewpoint. The
fears of many Southerns s become much less than ^surd when