Word: absurdity
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...whole absurd panoply of totalitarianism is on display. . . . The multitudes of gaudy uniforms . . . soldiers with red tassels dangling from their overseas caps; the snappy, booted, armed police, with their short clubs strapped to their belts; the civil guard, in their odd tricorn hats; the municipal police in blue, the special border police in green . . . poker-faced plain-clothes men flashing their badges and demanding identification papers...
...George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, Robert J. Watt, International Representative of A.F.L., Senator Elbert Thomas, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, and Ewing Cockrell, New York attorney, in a statement last week also called for universal disarmament, denounced as absurd international machinery designed to prevent only atomic armaments...
...Thomas Browne called them "vulgar errors." Said Francis Bacon: "Men rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and inconsequent deductions." As Essayist Logan Pearsall Smith put it, even the most lucid brains harbor "nests of woolly caterpillars...
...Communist paper print an article entitled "Allow Us to Err"? A newspaper in the Ukraine, where the new Soviet purge is at its peak, dared to do so last week. "Absurd," thundered Pravda. "This theory of the right to err really means . . . the right to be free from criticism. . . . Workers' officials who are unable to review their work critically are unable to go forward and are cowards and provincials...
Cried pint-sized Billy Rose: "I'm willing to give them more money. But this demand would put the Diamond Horseshoe out of business." Warned Joe Howard of the big, garish Zanzibar: "Absurd." There was, the owners hinted, only one alternative: firing the poor, beautiful chorus girls. Monte Proser of the Copacabana even went so far as to send his beauties notices of dismissal. Then all sat back and waited for further word from Caesar...