Word: unreasonable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold. Rather it is the hundreds who happily make the respectable and especially the most desirable clubs on the street. It is they who have consented without apparent compunctions to build their prestige, success, and social contentment on the hypocrisy, mendacity, inhumanity, servility, pettiness and sheer unreason upon which Princeton's club system and Bicker procedure are obviously reared. It's the oldest truth in creation that there is evil in the universe and it is as a realistic schooling in the world's folly and wickedness that Bicker is usually defended. In letting her students, after months of reading...
...Humphrey must negotiate in his scramble to the top-the office sweater girl; an addled old clerk who has sandbagged his office with 67 filing cabinets full of senselessly duplicated detritus dating from 1939: and a villainous colonel whose spit-and-demolish approach to bureaucracy reaches peaks of brassbound unreason. But Drohan shows no real talent for his chosen business, satire; instead, he insists on trying to make the reader take Humphrey's doubts and flounderings seriously. A Candide may get into frightful predicaments, but under the rules of the game, the reader should not be obliged to worry...
...Faulkner's big decision: "I would be a member of the N.A.A.C.P., since nothing else in our U.S. culture has yet held out to my race that much hope. But I would remain only [if] the watchword of our flexibility [were] decency, quietness, courtesy, dignity; if violence and unreason come, it must not be from...
...maintain effectiveness in other important areas of thought, this newspaper must abdicate its position in the segregation controversy. We have seen the situation as being insoluble in the hands of extremists, and have sought men of good will who can sift the elements of right from the chaff of unreason on both sides of the conflict. [But] men seeking the fair solution have not, in two years, come forward. They do not exist, or they have been unwilling to face the scorn and abuse of those on the extreme fringes . . . Editorials that do not speak sedition, bigotry, white supremacy...
...long, tense duel begins, wit to wit and will across will, between the embattled householder and the leering principle of unreason that fists in his refrigerator and lords it on his hearth. Worse still, March soon realizes that the law is no less his enemy than the outlaw; for if the police find out where the criminals are hiding, they are sure to come after them, and when they do, Bogart & Co., as promised, will make sure that March and family die first. The man of the house stands alone, and if he falls, his family falls with him. What...