Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impulse again when, in his presence. Abraham Lincoln worries about the Constitution and tells two stories of doubtful humor. Most of the speeches and conversations of the great sound authentic; only the hero, Montague-Sinclair, is unreal. He is, nevertheless, an engaging figure to the connoisseur of the absurd in fiction-a kind of Candide without Voltaire...
...comments on the present state of Franco-American relations are at once perceptive and optimistic. "The idea of France's withdrawing from NATO is absurd. France is intelligent enough to realize that her security is to a large degree dependent on the American alliance. But De Gaulle thinks NATO's structure could be more efficient. For example, he thinks that there is too much integration in the army command, necessitating a discreet balance between generals and staff officers of the various countries. He won't change the structure by himself, but he would like to start negotiations to change...
...attempting to make his country a world power. He attributed the recent atomic bomb tests in that country to this effort, but pointed out that France had so little money compared to the United States or Russia that even the idea of matching them on a nuclear scale was "absurd...
...almost as many students as before. Leverett and Lowell House rather than Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot will suffer now. At least the lot could have been placed a little further away from Lowell up Plympton Street. A parking lot several walking minutes from the latter houses makes it almost absurd for a student there to own a motorcycle, presumably purchased for use on short trips...
...tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when...