Word: absurdities
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...Chayes, wife of Abtam Chayes '43, professor of Law, said that the continued male-female separation of Tufts and Jackson "is absurd." Maintaining Jackson College as a separate school is an "administrative fiction," she explained. As a Jackson administrator there just "wasn't that much to do." she added...
...paper-was not warranted. The apology was part of the agreement Schmidt reached with Afro. Referring to his column, Richards said, "That particular line wasn't meant any more seriously than any other line. To lift that one line out of context and brand it as racist is absurd. Somehow when it hits closer to home, it seems racist...
...Clan is a tidy, entertaining Mafia melodrama about the biggest don in Paris; it is also a glossy, suspenseful heist film, dealing with what sounds, on paper, like the world's most impossible robbery. Directed with taut professionalism by France's Henri Verneuil, the movie is just absurd enough to amuse those who like their capers with a grain of salt...
...resident. The variety of conducting styles to which it has been subjected is almost unbelievable, but the orchestra has held up well. Expecting an orchestra to put out a top flight performance of five different programs on five consecutive nights with a strange conductor and a strange soloist is absurd. The strangeness produced inferior results from all of the participants. Serkin's performances on the first few nights were wooden and incompatible with the orchestra, and the BSO, in its turn, was unused to Rudolf's distinctive style. Naturally, the performances did little to enhance the reputations of Serkin, Rudlof...
Most proposed solutions for getting more blacks on juries seem to raise more problems. Proportional representation, besides limiting the lawyers' rights to peremptory challenges, might yield only one black per jury, plus absurd demands that juries precisely reflect all other groups-Jews, Chinese, Indians, Catholics and so on. Some reformers urge another method: racial quotas. They might be held unconstitutional if applied to jury selection, and almost certainly would be unwise. White jury commissioners could still control the system, and perhaps select only compliant or ultraconservative blacks. They might be harsher on black defendants than white jurors would...