Word: absurdity
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...people were the words that came out of Italy. Darkling Fascist Grand Councilman Roberto Farinacci, a onetime Socialist often used effectively by Benito Mussolini to sound off to the Italian masses, wrote in his Cremona paper Regime Fascista: "Now we can speak high and loud. . . . It is absurd to think that our country . . . shall not participate in the transformation of the map of Europe and perhaps of the world." In a broadcast to Italian troops at week's end, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, said: "No people in Europe can isolate itself from conflict...
...other side of Europe Danzig fills with truckloads of Hitler's jaunty armed "tourists." German ships bring in harmless-looking cargoes-arms. Across the main square of the old Baltic port Propaganda Minister Goebbels trips like an absurd gnome in a great coat that reaches his heels...
...useless, of course, to deny rumors and to ask for retractions. Once started, the harm is done. May I, however, suggest that the Crimson has editorial responsibility of the same character that any other news organ has. To permit publication of an utterly absurd story of this character can serve no useful purpose. I leave the question of good taste to your own maturer reflections. William Y. Elliott...
...spanking itself. This time the paddle was wielded by one of its own members, Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, only radio engineer on the commission. In a letter to Minnesota's Senator Lundeen, Engineer Craven (who dissented from the cancellation order) labeled the reasoning of his colleagues "absurd on its face." "Nothing can stop scientific research and technical progress in a free democracy," wrote he, "if incentive is not discouraged by government. ... In my opinion, the technique of television has advanced to the stage where an initial public trial is entirely justified. . . . There is no need ... for a commission...
...absurd to criticize Grosz on the score of techniue, for he is a polished craftsman. In most instances his supposedly crude manipulation of line and what may appear to be a sloppy method of organization, in reality, are masterly examples of precise adaptation of style to subject matter. And it is equally absurd to criticize the Germanborn American on the basis of obscenity or vulgarity. Obscenity and vulgarity, in art at any rate, imply a certain amount of conscious effort on the part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem...