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Overrun by Administrators. Goodman is best known for his writings on the plight of modern youth. Growing Up Absurd argues that today's problem children are the fault of a society that offers them squalid ideals and dull jobs. The behavior of juvenile delinquents and the beats, wayward as it is, is in fact a wholesome protest against adult mores. Writes Goodman. "Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system and to have skilled and spirited men to run that system with...
...become frightening to intrude because of the difficulty of distinguishing between sophisticated and naive interpretations of events which seem in the first instance absurd. Newman's presentation of representative work from these writers, though it has its flaws is an excellent survey. Two relevant points that appear neither in the quoted work nor in his own descriptions might have been added. One is that modern physics has been unable to design an experiment which "proves" that matter is of corpuscular form, and also says something about its wave nature. Put another way, the contradictions of wave-particle duality have been...
...Manchurian Candidate is so absurd that a synopsis of it reads like bad science fiction. Yet every detail of the film is so expertly done that one has doubts about it only after he leaves the theater. John Frankenheimer's direction (up to some of the best efforts of Hitchcock or Orson Welles) and uniformly excellent performances create an hypnotic suspense that allows no time to appraise the plausibility of what is going on. It is one simply of those rare movies that the viewer hopes will never...
...suggest, as you do, that the distribution of political power in Pennsylvania [Oct. 19] is responsible for its economic condition is absurd. To attribute the decline in steel production since 1956 to the Pennsylvania Democrats is transparently partisan...
Dead Chicks. To protest such inequities, demonstrators from Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges massed in Brussels. Marching ten abreast down the Avenue du Midi, some of them toting banners with the absurd slogan "Flemish Doctors for Flemish Patients," they ran smack into phalanxes of waiting Walloons, and the riot was on. When one Flemish tough tossed a "thunderflash"-a beer can filled with gunpowder-into the crowd, 4,000 steel-helmeted riot police who had been poised just off the boulevard wheeled into action...