Word: absurdity
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...musical comedy Rumple is not really so absurd as its title would suggest. That title, it might be well to explain at the outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact that Rumple is invisible to everybody else in the cast provides Irving Phillips' book with its main source of humor. Though scarcely original, the joke is still intermittently funny...
Another comment, on the subject of drink was, "The main problem seems to be the outrageous extent of drinking at Cornell. We feel the only solution, which will seem completely absurd to many Cornellians, is to ban liquor at fraternities...
...Reformation leaders-John Knox, the virtuoso of invective, and Calvin, the black icicle of theology for whose doctrine of predestination even-tempered Author Durant reserves one of his rare flashes of indignation ("We shall always find it hard to love the man who darkened the human soul with [an] absurd and blasphemous conception...
...these tendencies are absurd, objectionable and of negative survival value. The British will not last. The only thing that keeps them alive at all is their sludge-weighted coffee, warm martinis and tiors d'oeuvres made exclusively by smearing stale anchovy paste on soggy crackers." Columnist Buchwald. tiring of it all, wondered if he could end it by placing one more ad in the Times: "Will people who like killing birds as much as I do write...
...Ethical Practices Committee of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. that might get their whole brotherhood thrown out of the big union. The heart of their problem was best illustrated by the fouled sparkplugs brought along by the four biggest of them: bellowing Dave Beck, newly harassed (he cried) by some absurd vendetta of the income tax people; Minneapolis Teamster Vice President Sidney L. Brennan, convicted of accepting a bribe; Western Conference Chair man Frank Brewster, convicted of contempt of Congress; and, with topmost billing in the news, James Riddle Hoffa, chairman of the Central States Conference of Teamsters, struggling to keep...