Word: absurdities
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Acting like this just to avoid company would be absurd. And cavers do have other reasons for their secrecy. Too often when a cave's reputation spreads, its owners turn it into a commercial attraction and close it to further exploration. Or farmers dynamite their caves shut if careless cavers leave carbide lying around the cave's entrance, poisoning livestock. Those who know the Garden of Eden Cave say that this would happen to it as soon as people began to visit...
...know how silly and cute he feels singing them. All right, but the Righteous Brothers claim to be the white interpreters of Negro soul music; the thought of James Brown, the quintessence of soul, being anything but absolutely sincere about his own music is absurd. These two don't interpret; they capitalize. They collect their $7500 per performance and make anyone who credited them with being honest musicians feel like a sucker...
...largest academic underground operates within the confines of San Francisco State College, where a benign administration last winter permitted students to organize an experimental college that featured New Left Idol Paul Goodman (Growing Up Absurd) as a seminar leader. Operating out of three jerry-built huts on campus, the shadow school now has 70 courses ranging from "Competition and Violence" to "Gestalt Therapy" to "Kinesthetics." There is no charge for the seminar-like courses, which take place in the evening, and are taught by both students and members of State's faculty. Enrollment this fall...
...CRIMSON also alleges that a patent in the public domain will be profitless. This is a half-truth, and very misleading. There are two stages in the economic progress of an invention. To say that a firm will not produce the invention profitably without a patent is absurd, it is the equivalent of saying that Grand Union will never build another store because A. & P. will build one across the street. It is likely that a patent in the public domain will speed up the time lag between invention and widespread use, by rewarding the firm that produces the product...
...explain to Dr. King that non-violence is a tactic restricted to mass demonstrations. And that mass demonstrations generate no power that can be of tangible use to the lower-class black community, that brotherly love can be carried to an absurd extreme. For Roy Wilkins, he had angry words: "I think it is regrettable that Mr. Wilkins, a man whom I respect, has reached the point where he does not understand the (Negro) community, possibly because of lack of contact." Speaking to the white community, he maintained that those who left CORE were unjustified. "They were afraid. Many...