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Monocle's near-total dependence on philanthropy deters neither Editor Navasky nor his underpaid editorial staff of four. "We're only losing money according to schedule," said Navasky cheerfully last week. "Some people say contemporary life is too grim to satirize. Others say it is too absurd to satirize. I say it is too grim and absurd...
America's persistant support of MLF is hard to understand in face of NATO apathy, especially when the U.S. has expressed such intelligent concern with the danger of spreading nuclear arms. But American insistance at Geneva that MLF is "non-negotiable" seems totally absurd. At worst discussion would assuage some Russian fears. Present policy is stimying the disarmament conference...
There is something faintly absurd about most operatic revivals. However lovingly a long-forgotten work may be recreated, to contemporary audiences the result usually seems more redolent of old mothballs than Old Master. Yet the brightest hits of the current music season in West Germany are two small relics of 100 years' neglect that have been resurrected by the sophisticated, experimental Hessische Landestheater in industrial Darmstadt. Germany's new discovery: Jacques Offenbach...
...have described him almost as well as the name his parents had the crystal vision to invent for him 43 years ago ? Thelonious Sphere Monk. It sounds like an alchemist's formula or a yoga ritual, but during the many years when its owner merely strayed through life (absurd beneath a baseball cap), it was the perfect name for the legends dreamed up to account for his sad silence. "Thelonious Monk? He's a recluse, man." In the mid-'40s, when Monk's reputation at last took hold in the jazz underground, his name and his mystic utterances...
...Either the real power exercised by student governments at Brandeis, Swarthmore, and hundreds of state colleges and universities is unknown to the Chairman, or he has worked out new meanings for the words "scope" and "effectiveness." It is the very narrowness of scope that currently renders the HCUA slightly absurd, and it would be a kindness "to say nothing" about HCUA effectiveness...