Word: absurdities
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...urged that his order "be expunged so that there would be nothing in our records which could be cited as a precedent." Three others held that the "right to be let alone," enunciated by the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, covers "a great many foolish, unreasonable and even absurd ideas which do not conform, such as refusing medical treatment, even at great risk...
Billy's real life is crammed to the brim with that dreary banality which has become cinematically synonymous with the British middle-class. To escape the drabness of his clerkship at the local mortician's and the carpings of his parents and crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his personal life. For a starter, he perpetually fabricates deceptions--apparently for the sheer adventure of extricating himself from the embarrassments which result. A neighbor inquires after his father: Billy unnecessarily invents disease and surgery. As the contradictions pile up, his lies grow more extravagant and improbable...
...very few who intend to pursue mathematical philosophy as a career, new math is dandy. But for the vast majority, who learn math in order to deal with the arithmetical problems of life, new math is a hodgepodge of abstractions that range from the irrelevant to the absurd and merely interfere with the practical applications of mathematics...
This plot demands melodramatic situations which are absurd enough to be satirized--and yet subtle enough to reveal nuances of personality. Shaw's characters are complex creations. They discover and reveal unpleasant truths about themselves, as when the minister's wife Judith finds herself falling in love with Dick, the dashing reprobate. Several times in the first two acts, Director Clayton Koelb sacrifices subtlety to mere farce. For example, Dick's younger brother, Charles Degleman is so completely--if amusingly--idiotic that it is hard to remember that he is considered the "good" brother of the family...
...tone demonstrate Dick Dudgeon's energetic honesty. His smile is perfect: it can soften into kindness, flash a satiric comment on his own words, or reveal a spirited man who impetuously offers to sacrifice his life. Micheal Ehrhardt plays General Burgoyne, a character whose ability to mock an absurd situation resembles Dick's; he is impressive in his dignity, biting in his wit. Even Pamela Harris's opening gesture foreshadows the careful details of her performance: she awakens, and consciously assumes her dour, self-righteous expression...