Word: absurdity
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Only the air of the drawing room persists to the end; despite Edna Best's smooth playing, the charm of Jane fades out. Halfway along, she stops seeming faintly absurd and at once stops seeming alive. And she doesn't cut a wide enough swath, cause enough contretemps, shake up enough lives. In the end, the strong point of the play seems almost as much comment as character...
...Formosan leader, Chiang Kai-shek. To the dependable legislators of Massachusetts, for their yearly playful attempts to legislate Communism out of people's minds. To Coach Loyld Jordan, for repeated efforts to clarify his position on why big football is good football. To the Cambridge police, for their absurd insistence on towing away student's cars which sit quietly on the streets, hurting nobody. To Congress, for passing piecemeal draft legislation and keeping college students in a state of perpetual confusion and uncertainty. And, finally, to Allen Zoll, William F. Buckley, and all their friends and associates who are dedicated...
...director because he likes to eat. He is a cartoonist because that's the only way he can tell people about themselves. His The Possum That Didn't and The Bear That Wasn't may be remembered as two of the freshest books of drawings to appear on the absurd ideas of people and animals. His latest, The World That Isn't, is just as clever, it not as original...
Stung into rage, Hsieh shot back: "Your statement is rude and absurd. You've gone too far in your absurdity and arrogance. You've reversed black and white. Your statement proves your lack of sincerity. You've fully exposed your ugly, ferocious features of a bandit...
...later speeches were ambiguous and inconsistent with his own basic line of thought and action. These ambiguities, plus the distortion of MacArthur by his friends of the Hearst and McCormick press, led some to conclude that MacArthur was an isolationist; others, that he was an imperialist. Both tags were absurd, yet the figure of MacArthur in U.S. life was neither as clear nor as large in December as it had been in April...