Word: absurdities
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...made him so influential was the look of his paintings, their sign language and visual shorthand. His imagination was fenced with ironies and ambiguities. The grand manner had no place in it. An early etching, Hero with a Wing, 1905, is typical. It belongs to the sardonic world of absurd theater-a parody of a classical statue, failed Icarus with a broken arm and a wooden leg, brandishing his one frayed wing like a plucked and grumpy rooster. Other artists of Klee's time, a Bonnard or a Matisse, could and did summon up with a few brush strokes...
...weeks before seem ludicrous. This is due in part to the way Hersey has presented the material, in a bowdlerized version suitable for distribution to rich conservative old Blues. And, in fact, it does look ludicrous in retrospect, to some extent. But, at the time, it was anything but absurd. There was a lack of hypocrisy, a feeling of commitment in the whole Yale community. It is easy to see now that they had not the slightest understanding of the problem in the black ghetto, and that they could have done little to help in any case, but the innocence...
...show's repeated numbers, its A-is-for-Ape approach, could make it only an electronic classroom, hammering data across. But there is something more: a Lewis Carroll-like humor, the cleansing sense of the absurd...
...political reasons rather than legal ones. The weak and false testimony of the prosecution was contradicted by all eight of my witnesses-and the judge in his closing statement said, in effect, that I was to be convicted because there was a disturbance and I was there. This is absurd if one merely reads the statute in question. More disturbing, however, is the fact that from the judge's comments it is clear that my sentence would have been higher had I been deemed by him "one of the leaders of the situation." In truth, that would have meant that...
...absurd to study cases and not apply them when there are people out there to be helped," Penn continued. She said that the paper would contain articles explaining what is being done in other universities in the area of legal education reform, and would advocate giving full course credit for work in such areas as legal services and welfare offices...