Word: absurdities
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...shelved by the votes of the new liberal majority, headed by Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling, which is anxious to get on with the business of approving President Kennedy's legislative program. But the Kearns proposal was followed quickly by Rules Committee consideration of a flood of other absurd resolutions, such as one that would have authorized a House investigation of "the social and economic problems engendered by parenthood outside of wedlock...
...dukes and marquises vied to hold a candle or the King's nightshirt. As soon as the last light was snuffed out, Louis XV scrambled out of bed, scurried up a secret staircase and bedded down comfortably in his own cozy petit appartement. In the morning the whole absurd ritual began again in reverse...
Nearly everyone else is ridiculously ineffectual, most of all Adam Parry's Ajax. Parry looks neither powerful nor noble; his great speech on illimitable time is absurd, and one suspects that intransigeance is the least of his problems. So also with Teucer (James Rooney) and the Messenger (John van Sickle), who is not helped by the mop he wears around his chin; and the wily Odysseus (Ray Sokolov) is no subtle man at all, just a ham. They are all hams when they want to emote something; it is much as if they conceived the play in terms...
...University against getting involved in cases still pending in court." If the lawyers spoke as lawyers, they are wrong: there would be nothing illegal in Harvard's permitting Seeger to discuss his case while it is under appeal. Mark DcWolfe Howe, professor of Law, has called this argument "absurd." If the lawyers spoke as advisers on a non-legal matter, they are foolish, and the implications of their advice are frightening. Is Harvard to bar a convicted, but unsentenced, man from speaking here about his case? (Willard Uphaus, who spoke in the fall of 1959, meets those specifications.) Or does...
...pointed out that Seeger is completely justified in discussing his case while on bail, and called the notion that this would be unlawful "absurd." Turning to the law to justify its position leaves the University on "very weak ground," according to Howe...