Word: absurdity
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...absurd to claim that research by the University scholars and a subsequent publishing of their findings is not an integral part of Harvard education. The professor enlarges and ramifies the province of knowledge. Also, if he is to prove a sustained and driving force for the men in his courses he must have a recurrent stimulus for himself...
...most heartily detest. "Our policy of revision of the treaties [i. e. Versailles, Trianon, St. Germain, Neuilly] . . ." he said, "aims at avoiding war. The revision of the peace treaties is not prevailingly of interest to Italy, but interests the whole of Europe and the whole world. Revision is not absurd or impossible, since the possibility of revision is contemplated in the Covenant of the League of Nations. The only absurd thing is to expect treaties to remain absolutely immobile...
Achilles was a great man until he sulked in his tent. It is small wonder that the voters of Massachusetts have deserted a cause whose leaders are capable of such absurd gestures as a transcontinental sulk. Mrs. Peabody has neither faith, hope, nor charity. Anyway she has gone South. The birds are following...
...screen which is supposed to add the elusive "third dimension" for which producers have been experimenting so eagerly, but which is simply a big screen. Some of the sequences in which John Mack Brown drawls through the role of Billy are effective, many of them are absurd, and in general Billy the Kid lacks the gusto it tries so hard to borrow from its models. It is a stiff, ornamental, unsuccessful imitation of a picture form which, since it made no concessions to realism, was originally pure and entrancing fable. Best shot: Wallace Beery smoking the starving outlaw...
...Office Wife (Warner). This will have one automatic public in the people who read Faith Baldwin's magazine story and another in those who will feel the pull of the splendid box-office title. To criticize the plot because it is familiar would be absurd, for its familiarity is its greatest strength. To be effective as drama the love-rivalry between an executive's secretary and his wife should have been worked out with far more specific, individual detail. But the producers developed it stupidly, could not keep improbability out of a situation and background so thoroughly within the experience...