Word: absurdities
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...conspiracy to be uncovered, large numbers of liberal professors to humiliate, and it is not lonely at all. It is fun. It is great fun to manipulate the Establishment, to push it around, to outsmart it. It is what David Riesman calls "mischief" with a consciousness of the absurd always there...
Fantasy & Propaganda. During last week's sessions, Hanoi's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy once again rejected as "absurd" the U.S. demand for a reciprocal move in the wake of Washington's limited bombing pause, and he refused to broaden the discussions until the air raids end. If the U.S. insists on reciprocity, he suggested sarcastically, the North Vietnamese might reply by issuing a statement that Hanoi "commits itself from now on, as in the past, to refrain from bombing and all other acts of war on the entire territory of the U.S." Thuy inched a little closer...
...England named Jacqueline Bisset. Her screen debut in the part originally scheduled for Mia Farrow-before she walked out on the movie and on Sinatra-is one of The Detective's redeeming features. Otherwise, this police epic peters out in aimless diffusion and in some of the most absurd juxtapositions of Manhattan and California location shots ever seen...
Self-Editing. A lesser and looser work than The Master and Margarita, it reports slyly the absurd difficulties of a young writer resembling Bulgakov. Maxudov, the hero, is a staff member for a journal called the Shipping Gazette, and he writes a novel for the same reason that prisoners make their ropes out of bedsheets. He reads it to his literary friends. Awful, they say. He steals a revolver and determines to edit himself. As he is gluing his nerve together, the editor of a magazine bursts in and offers to serialize the novel (which is called Black Snow...
...need only learn to live in uncertainity. No two moments of life are ever the same. And to waste them all in absurd routines? We need no comforting lies. For music we need only stop the drummer's strangling beat and listen. Listen...