Word: absurdity
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First, if he should win his suit, it is absurd to think that the Crimson would continue its attack upon him. Naturally, the whole campaign would collapse if its arguments were proved untrue. Second, Mr. Wolff's own statement that his income this year is higher than usual indicates that he is well able to hire expert legal aid, if he wants to, for not long ago the magazine Time looked into Harvard tutoring schools and reported that they are a decidedly lucrative business. Finally, he does not have to prove actual monetary loss from the Crimson attack in order...
...Ella was not absurd, and it is the special virtue of Jenny Ballou's book that she makes that plain. Some of Ella's first poems were "lovely in their lilt, overbrimming with an authentic freshness of emotion." She had great energy, great sincerity, great generosity, and on occasion great good sense. Even when she became a fixture of yellow journalism, her spontaneity remained untainted by cynicism. What was it that led her on into the self-deception that finally broke down in her last tragic years? ("I shall be forgotten," she said, "while more careful and conscientious...
...complicated situation, one thing is perfectly clear: that a decision can be reached entirely apart from Union interference. Last March, with undergraduates behind the waitresses, they won many points. But the absurd suggestion that Harvard is not free to hire its students as it chooses will not find such friendly reception. The March contract specifically provides for such a possibility, if further proof were needed. In tenth grade English, it states that the contract applies to workers "except students who are or may be employed . . ." Harvard has granted its workers a mile; it will not be easy for them...
...World War II and with it a British-French blockade of German ports, German-Spanish trade dwindled. Oranges piled up on Valencia's docks, the iron ore of the Basque littoral could no longer be shipped to Hamburg. Generalissimo Franco, although holding Britain and France responsible for this "absurd" war, agreed to talk trade. For three months Frenchmen and Spaniards dickered. Once France broke off negotiations, said that ungrateful Spain did not realize the extent of her concessions. Spain retaliated by closing her border to what little trade had been allowed to cross the French frontier. The personable Nazi...
...than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...