Word: absurdity
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...that the Council is unrepresentative when the men on it were elected from every class and House in the College is absurd. As to the charge of dictating, there has not been one instance in the Council's history in which it has dictated anything to anybody. This is the worst smear campaign in the College's recent history...
...evident," says Seitz, "that an appreciable component of Congress is not aware of the conditions which must be met if we are to obtain the most from our scientific fraternity. For example, the continued partisan attacks on the top administration of the Atomic Energy Commission, on issues that appear absurd to most scientists, has probably done as much to impede the progress of that organization as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." What is needed, says Physicist Seitz, is a hard-hitting, imaginative agency like the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...Restoration comedy and as antisocial as a Marx Brothers movie, Nothing squeezes the juice out of the proposition that Britain's younger generation has turned hopelessly dull and solemn, leaving most of the fun & games to the oldsters. True, says Henry Green, the older generation may be slightly absurd in its romantic nostalgias, even more than slightly devious in its morals-but look at the postwar youngsters...
...purred Lewis. "I don't suggest that the Mine Workers will immediately become half-witted the minute the operators throw some absurd thing on the table, but we will analyze it with them. It is negotiable if they are strong enough to persuade...
...apparently Rossellini is correct in charging that most of the scenes explaining this conversion lie on the floor of the RKO cutting room. Certainly as it stands now, her conversion is one of the most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth...