Word: absurdity
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...authenticity. Samples: the whole look and feel of Cambridge and Harvard, a generation ago; Horace charming a prospective father-in-law and a gaggle of stockbrokers; Mr. Greenstreet breathily declaring his passion for his low-necked, uninterested wife. But the long-suffering friend, inadvertently no doubt, finally becomes absurd and faintly contemptible. It all adds up to a strained, silly show...
...night and rips down the facade of their pretenses: "We've all been lying. Cheating. Masquerading . . . What is it we're really after? . . . One wants peace. Another wants love. A third wants faith. A fourth wants power. It's all very simple. And rather absurd...
...Just how absurd it all is readers of Storm and Echo will discover. Of his earlier gifts, Prokosch still retains a descriptive talent that can make the heat, the stench, and the occasional beauty of the African jungle almost tangible. Stripped of its pretentious symbolism, its agonized soul-searching, this could have been a good travel book. But the vivid jungle is matted and twined with the perilous Africa cliché, reminiscent of Hollywood's stock treatment: "Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp...
Pictured in these nine volumes, this view of the world seems somewhat absurd. It also reflects, beneath its bogus overtones, a belief fairly prevalent in the U.S. from...
...shameful to be happy by oneself." Grand abandoned his perfect sentence and Father Paneloux his religious fatalism. It was not a question of heroism; people hardly had enough freedom of choice to be heroic. They simply decided to do what they could, even if their resistance was absurd. And perhaps, suggests Camus, to continue upholding one's human obligations when there seems the least possibility of fulfilling them is, if not heroism, the best...