Word: absurdity
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Headmaster Fuess had, at least, been forthright. His first step was to abolish the compulsory classics; he found it "absurd to drive a boy with no aptitude for the subject two or three times through Caesar's Commentaries." He prefers to have only half his boys take Latin, "because they want...
...high dudgeon, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried: "I am astonished, to say the least, that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should associate itself with Marriner Eccles in his perfectly absurd effort to justify [his credit policy...
...mechanics of a parody are to take off in the structure of an established, respected institution, and reduce it to the absurd. The Lampoon editors have used this formula, but only half-way. Their Newsweek cover is only distinguishable from the original magazine by the modest announcement: "A Harvard Lampoon Parody." The type, the pictures, the features and the make-up are a perfect facsimile. But the contents are about as humorous as Newsweek's own weekly output of printed matter, which can glean only smiles of agreement in a parlor-car to Chicago...
...Thackeray," he wrote firmly to a friend at the age of 21, "that he is never to invite me to his house, as I never intend to go. ... I am going to become a great bear; and have got all sorts of Utopian ideas. . . . These may all be very absurd, but I try the experiment on myself, so I can do no great hurt...
...talent - for nonsense. With its baby found in a handbag, its imperious dowager who is "a monster without being a myth," its one young man who invents a dissolute brother and its other young man who blithely proceeds to impersonate him, Earnest is often farce at its most absurd...