Word: absurdity
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...absurd, that was why. The larger designs of the Communists, Fascists, Anarchists, and Syndicalists were realized in their reports where history appeared "not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines...
...minute last of the fifth was absurd, as inept Cornell moundsmen combined with the best Crimson hitting of the year. John Getch and Walt Stahura, each of whom had three hits, opened with singles. Phil Haughey popped to third, and Repetto struck out, but then Cornell pitcher Bob List walked Bergantino, Cleary and Simourian...
...though the New York Times called Nasser's terms an "absurd ultimatum," the Western powers seemed to hold out little real hope of extracting any major concessions: they might, in return for making the arrangement two-way instead of unilateral, firm up the contractual status of the agreement. But Nasser no longer faced the threat of armed attack by Britain or France, and Britain's Foreign Office acknowledged privately that any attempt at economic boycott could not be long maintained in the face of bitter opposition from shipping companies watching their competitors steam through the canal...
...exhibits in Low's human menagerie -scowling, smirking, always true to life, yet slightly absurd-have stayed in the minds of millions. Apart from talent, all great cartoonists need a point of attack from which to enfilade their natural and necessary enemy-the great. Low's point of attack was his own New Zealand background. His Scottish-born father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found...
...story of the ups and downs in the lives of Leander's two sons, who find that their gentle mother and vigorous father have not exactly prepared them for the world beyond St. Botolphs. Lastly, it is a book peppered with ribald good humor and peopled by some absurd zanies...