Word: absurdity
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...Chapman tells the story of Watts' five spiritual wives and an absurd legal union with an incipient genius, the girl model Ellen Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result...
...these British officers, Captain George Reid Millar, has described his experiences as an area leader of the French Resistance. Captain Millar has the face of a fanatic without a dogma (this made it possible for him to lead a forlorn hope). He also has a sense of the absurd, which makes it difficult for him to take seriously the politics of the Right or the Left. This helps to keep his report of the Resistance in focus as a patriotic (rather than a social) uprising...
...plan to make English "economic." But lately he had been appalled anew at the discovery that he could write "bomb" only 18 times a minute and "bom" 23 times. Stormed Shaw: "The extra sign is entirely senseless, it not only wastes the writer's time, but suggests an absurd mispronunciation, as if the word 'gun' were to be spelt 'gung...
...debacle of the London conference; the grim, plain, unheeded words of our scientists regarding the future of the atomic bomb; the President's absurd advocacy of universal peacetime, military conscription; the stupid reliance of our military leaders on outworn techniques of warfare; the tragic lack of statesmanship, realism and vision on the part of the world's government leaders in spite of the obvious desire of the world's peoples for a genuine peace and not an armed and jittery truce-all these portents mean but one thing: that the Third World War is in the making...
...littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...