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...assumption behind the system is that the national origins of 1920 America had made the country great and that the government must not let the ethnic balance of that glorious year be disturbed. This idea is absurd in principle and disastrous in application...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Immigration and the Status Quo | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a hussar's busby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...always referred to Gertrude's early days as the best period of her life: the days before she caught what he called "the absurd notion of genius." Later, when she visited America in 1934, she had become a Lion. On her one-night stay in Cambridge, when she lectured to Harvard and Radcliffe, Miss Stein wrote...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Gertrude Stein at Radcliffe: Most Brilliant Women Student | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a guardsman's busby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...college threatened last week to ask for $.5 million in order to get what he needs. Realizing that the funds it receives will be mathematically proportionate to its request, each college will attempt to outbid the others. The request system will cease to be merely unfair; it will become absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense Education Grants | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

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