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...Sorokin's warning that modern war is 2000 times worse than the medieval version. Clarence Darrow denounced "poverty-creating big business" as "the cause of all crime." Sinclair Lewis declared that "one-half the people in colleges could be dropped to the advantage of everybody." Lewis denounced grading as "absurd"; whether he heard or not, Dean Hanford agreed enough to propose that separate April and November hour grades be abolished. The head of the Faculty approved this and dropped midyear probations and attendance records for upperclassmen at the same time. The head of the Hygiene Department labelled Stillman Infirmary "inadequate...
...satisfactory? What we ought to be saying is that we have the most perfect anti-ICBM system that the human mind will ever devise. Instead, the public domain is already full of statements that the Zeus may not be satisfactory; that it has deficiencies. I think it is absurd to release that kind of information to the public...
Talking to Washington newsmen, grizzled Yankee Poet Robert Frost, 87, wanted to be sure they got one thing straight: "The newspapers are always comparing my hair with Carl Sandburg's. That's absurd. Carl has a hairdo...
...final panel, on "Leisure is Suburbia," was a bomb. Bosley Crowther, movie critic of the New York Times, leered at one of the female panel members and sniggered suggestively at his own off-color jokes, before piously denouncing over-sexed movies. Paul Goodman, author of Growing Up Absurd, fought with a Commissioner of Planning about whether Puerto Rican children should be allowed to swim in Westchester County pools...
...report, but, like so many others, was left speechless by a proposal that would enlarge the Council to 50-75 men, most of whom would have less reason to be on the Council than some of the present members. As for the matter of ignoring Council votes, it seems absurd for the Council to consider itself the last word on something like Sophomore Standing, and to think that a 10-9 head count should end discussion. A committee like the SCCEP is valuable for the points it raises on both sides of an issue...