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...Another good example of exaggeration," Professor Marks continued, "is the popular notion that the helicopter will replace the automobile in the post-war decade. The helicopter will always be more hazardous than the automobile, and it is absurd to think that the housewife will use it for shopping. Perhaps business-men who live in suburban communities may find it convenient--but its popular possibilities have been greatly-overrated...
...provocative show. Some visitors are impervious; others leave with their bonnets abuzz. Last week, on the somewhat dusty subject, "Are Clothes Modern?," the" Museum confronted visitors with some sharp displays and comments by Austrian-born Architect-Designer Bernard Rudofsky. On the thesis that clothes are always artificial, often absurd, sometimes harmful, the exhibition ranged from clanky chest armor to bird-cage bustles...
Admittedly, the opening situation is absurd, but the plot resolves naturally, in spite of being humorously exaggerated, without contrivance. "Hall the Conquering Hero" is Sturges at his best, thoroughly human and thoroughly worth-while...
This claim, by Japanese standards, was not so absurd as it appeared to the more practical U.S. mind. U.S. observers in the Pacific learned long ago that Japanese generals and admirals habitually deceive their own superiors at home. When Radio Tokyo claimed that the U.S. had lost the war, the desk admirals in Tokyo might well have believed that their admirals afloat in Philippine waters had actually sunk 17 transports, eight destroyers, eleven carriers, eleven cruisers, etc., as they had publicly claimed...
Tell Ben Turick, who hails from my home town, that those reasons for Dewey votes (TIME LETTERS, Oct. 9), are absurd enough but no more than the one a great many Roosevelt supporters give, viz.: "I will vote for Roosevelt in 1944 because of what Hoover did or didn't do in 1932." If Hoover's record of twelve years ago has any bearing on what either candidate proposes to do in 1945 I'd like to know what...