Word: absurdities
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...attitude of Sens. Magnuson and Pastore and the NAB is absurd. Their arguments are based on the premise that "it is not in the public interest" to broadcast liquor advertising into the American home. But newspapers and magazines carry advertisements for hard liquor, and as one broadcasting executive has observed, Congress and the NAB are trying "to make the existence of hard liquor go away by pretending they don't recognize...
...Miss Read') have always enjoyed the quiet success their sound judgment deserved; those rebellious Angries (like John Braine, John Wain and that lot) who have ignored her example have inevitably become eminently unreadable. Their prose becomes barren, sluggish and didactic; their characters tedious; and their plots angular or absurd...
While agreeing with Hook that it would be better to fight a nuclear war than to surrender, Morgenthau still believes that such a war would be suicidal and "absurd." Hook: "If I understand you, then, Mr. Morgenthau, you're prepared to be heroic even if foolish. I maintain that if we're prepared to be heroic, we will not have to be foolish...
...might make the increasingly bold opposition even bolder (last week the regime announced that it had foiled a plot to assassinate Castro by arresting a dozen suspects), the Maximum Leader hurriedly branded the decree a forgery, jailed 14 persons, including a Havana printer, on charges of circulating it. "An absurd invention," said Castro blandly on TV. "Who would dream of such madness?" But many Cubans remained unconvinced-considering the course that Castro sails. As Lenin himself once said: "Revolution is impossible as long as the family exists...
...tourist on roller skates" ever did the Continent as quickly as the fly named Fanny whizzes through contemporary life. "There is nothing like the ridiculous to cultivate one's sense of the absurd," says...