Word: absurdity
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...place of discipline in education seems to have been quite forgotten. . . . The rabbit is at liberty to run about the garden where his life is passed, and feed upon such plants, weeds and flowers as may attract him. . . . To call any such process education is in the highest degree absurd...
...government. He passed unnoticed the Constitutional provision that "the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior offices as they think proper in the heads o departments." In view of the excellent record which the civil service has had in the past, it would be absurd to revert from a satisfactory procedure to old and inadequate methods...
Merrifield, a former graduate student at Littauer, explained that his colleagues considered the Harvard men "a good bunch of guys" and thought they should stay in college as long as they possibly could. "The idea that the civilian students are considered slackers by the men in uniform is absurd," the ensign stated. "Most of us had completed our college training, so we had loss to give up," he commented...
...mind there can be no escape from the conclusion that a free society in times of peace (notice the qualification) must tolerate even those minorities which by their principles and doctrines seem to jeoparadize the cause of freedom. This may seem absurd to some. Yet to conclude otherwise is to forsake the only ethics on which a free society may hope to thrive. (I am talking, of course, about the political rights of a minority, about free speech and free assembly, not about conspiracies or assassinations looking towards armed revolt...
...Street. The pattern of war finance and the civilian economy show the revolt brought to its logical conclusion. The farm bloc ganged up with the labor bloc to smash Henry Morgenthau's dreamboat of a withholding tax. The farm bloc, ganging up with the Silver States, kept the absurd silver legislation on the books. And the farm bloc made hash of inflation control. Though wholesale prices during the year rose only by about 10%, farm prices skyrocketed...