Word: absurdity
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...Critic was started originally on the catch-phrase "Difference not Indifference"--and the aim is not unpraiseworthy, for it predicates the existence of opinion, of something on which to differ. To many it may seem an absurd proposition that any opinion whatever should exist in college. There are, too, aceptics who doubt that any undergraduate wanta to read what author undergraduate has written. Whether this attitude is an expression of perennial Harvard indifference or a justified conclusion is uncertain. The aim of the Critic is to deny both; to deny by proving the contrary, by publishing specimens of undergraduate talent...
...least intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head thief Abu Hasan (Fritz Kortner) when he inflicts unjust punishment on his favorite dancing girl (Anna May Wong). Interspersed with songs, dances, oriental feasts and samples of British comic opera jocosity, it requires almost...
Fifty-five, fat, still recognizable by his cigar, Barney Oldfield last week engaged in his first race in 16 years, an absurd "Jinx Derby" to advertise the Chrysler exhibit at Chicago's Century of Progress, where Oldfield heads a staff of 20 exhibition drivers. Oldest car in the race was an 1896 Tallyho made by the Chicago Vehicle Co., which had not been moved for 34 years. Others in the field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver...
...DeCasseres has a perfectly good reason to object to Herr Hanfstaengl, but he conceals it under an absurd cover. We suggest that he re-read his Spinoza (which, we note, is one of his interests). That classic moralist would have frankly stated his real objection. SCIO
...good name newsworthy last week was the fact that Cartoonist Gray and his editors were receiving countless letters from excited readers throughout the land, asking if the strip was supposed to be a sympathetic portrayal of the case of Samuel Insull. Two facts made such a notion absurd: 1) neither Editor Patterson nor The Tribune is an Insull-lover; 2) Cartoonist Gray draws his strips ten weeks in advance, had Annie's Daddy on trial before Samuel Insull was even arrested...