Word: absurdities
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...wrong. It's a surprising idea and an insoluble problem. There is no way to repeal history whether it has been right or wrong, and even a liberal interpretation from the Supreme Court will not get around it. The question of history's morality is impossible enough to be absurd. Is the universe right or wrong? Can one morally approve of the law of gravity? Is life to be condoned? There is hardly an appropriate reply. The questions do better as jokes, perhaps as subjects for discussion in one, of lonesco's plays. But here he is, ethically offended...
...pathetic. Mass-murders, starvation, Marxists, Fascists and the followers of Sartre--I can gladly join lonesco in condemning them all. But his judgments become so obsessive and his attitude so hopeless that all he can end up doing is whimpering about the wrongness of history. Isn't this man absurd...
...disadvantage of probably the great majority of Harvard undergraduates. It seems obvious that, after the teaching facility, the college's second priority should be the library, especially since it is a major function of Lamont to provide reserved reading materials for almost all undergraduate courses. It seems absurd that this center of our academic life should suffer at the hands of such things as free distribution of toilet paper to freshmen, not to mention other substantial but less compelling drains on the Corporation's budget. Closing the reserve book desk at 10:00 P.M. not only inconveniences those students returning...
Pretty intricate issues. Ulam ignores them. By studying "good intentions" in a vacuum, he misses the drift of American foreign policy. His "analysis" of Vietnam is typically shallow and absurd. Contradicting the consensus of past and present critics (including such men as President Eisenhower). Ulam contends that Ngo Dinh Diem would have won had elections been held in 1956. "It is a testimony not so much to his undemocratic propensities as to his political clumsiness, one should think, that Diem did not insist on having elections," he writes. What evidence has he for this astonishing conclusion? "The partition of Vietnam...
...with a blunt object.) The band is afraid that Zappa is watching everything they are doing and that he will make them repeat it in the movie. Yet at other times they complain to the audience that he is in the background somewhere, directing them and making them say absurd things...