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...Rothko, Kline, David Smith, Hofmann, Newman and Reinhardt are all dead, and their work has been so long discussed, labeled, ticketed and run through the meat grinder of mass art education that it has already assumed the air of an august period style-the last "heroic" American art. The absurd consequence has been that the group's surviving members,*of whom Motherwell is the youngest, have come to be mistakenly regarded as anachronisms whose work occupies a historical pigeonhole but has only a shadowy relationship to the present...
...SOON meets the villain, vanquishes him, and returns to the jungle, where he dies alone at the teeth of Uiara, a water-nymph-cannibal. Hanging from this framework is a series of absurd encounters with de Andrade's representatives of Brazilian society...
PARIS--The Communist delegation to the Paris peace talks Thursday rejected President Nixon's latest peace plan as an "unreasonable and absurd" ultimatum, but hinted they might listen to any new proposal Nixon might make...
...Pompidou plan with extraordinary reserve and caution, other European countries have been less reserved in rejecting it. "The French have always thought we should go to hell," said a Dutch official in The Hague, "and this is typical of their reasoning." Snapped a German diplomat: "It is absolutely absurd to think that one nation in the Community should be assigned to make shoe soles while the other makes politics...
...CAME to Harvard, Lewis Carroll's Alice would feel right at home. The world of University manners becomes most surreal after a junior faculty member is not rehired. None of his colleagues mention it. "It's perfectly absurd," Klein laughed. "You've taught joint courses with these people, you've known them outside. Nothing is said. Not even, 'Gosh, that's too bad.' It's very strange." Thomson also marvelled at "the degree to which these things aren't spoken about," adding, "No one says, 'I'm sorry things didn't work...