Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will notice, has been an expotential rise of unhappiness in the world. If you remember, things were pretty good as recently as 1959. Then, with the '60's, they began to deteriorate. Most of the misery has come predictably from the cities where all the technology and absurd population boom has been concentrated. And overall, when compared to how things were even only a few years ago, it's all much worse...
tablished justice of society, to show as Deutshke says that "the rules of the game of this absurd democracy are not ours...
...nonviolent resistance and chides the younger radicals, most of them oriented to the Students for a Democratic Society, for their hysterical rhetoric. Tom Hayden is a gifted, mercurial writer and organizer who was a founder of S.D.S. Also indicted were Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, leaders of the prankishly absurd Yippies, and Davis, the son of a White House economic adviser during the Truman Administration and an organizer for the National Mobilization Committee. Black Panther Bobby Scale came to the Chicago convention almost by chance. He was filling in as a speaker for Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole board refused...
...time. Director George Roy Hill abruptly annihilates the nostalgia with a scat-singing sound track by Burt Bacharach at his most cacophonous. Coupled with a mod love song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head-wedged in while Newman does stunts on a bicycle -the score makes the film as absurd and anachronistic as the celebrated Smothers Brothers cowboy who played the kerosene-powered guitar...
...began expectantly thinking about what it would be like to have lan walk onto the ward and say let's go and as easy as that leave this enormous machine that endlessly cranks out thick swatches of time like huge strings of taffy. It was absurd to be able to simply walk out. Some elaborate rite of passage seemed called...