Word: absurdities
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...correct the past inequity of deferring students by perpetrating a new one--drafting them almost exclusively--is absurd...
...after all, there is little on Kachcha Tivu but cacti. Indira Gandhi, deeply involved in such major problems as a stagnant economy, overpopulation, food shortages and the disintegration of her own Congress Party, would dearly have loved to sidestep the entire issue. In today's India, however, the absurd and obscure seem frequently to become major affairs of state. Once they got a fix on the island, the opposition parties, led by the nationalist Jana Sangh, demanded that Indira send troops and warships to hold all 160 acres of it for India...
Schwartz said yesterday, "the letter is unconstitutional and is in fact a secret memorandum sent to the selective service boards." To say that the letter is not an official directive, he continued, is to say that Gen. Hershey has no power over the selective system. This, Schwartz maintained, is absurd...
...there are many happy accidents and not a few disasters. The movie is at its Rabelaisian best when it sticks to salacity, at its worst when it attempts sagacity by commenting on life's meaninglessness. In the West the age of the Theater and the Cinema of the Absurd has rendered such Dada as dead as the dodo. But in countries with a history of repressive censorship, nonsense undoubtedly serves a therapeutic purpose...
...Gramont suggests, was a new power, a new style setter: public opinion. "My infallible Queen," Jacques Necker, one of Louis XVl's Finance Ministers, called it in a switch of fealty. Public opinion, influenced by Voltaire and a prestigious literary antiEstablishment, made regal style seem dated and absurd even to aristocrats...