Word: absurdity
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...their friends. In this case, however, "Walter", was evidently making a social visit and nothing score. He brought flowers, and therefore waited for some time before he made up his mind that there was no one at home, at last, pulling out his ghostly watch--the clock idea is absurd--he went reluctantly away, slipping his fingerprint under the door...
...that has Vachel Lindsay, but I mean that his inspiration, the song on his lips, is not restrained by dictates of taste. Not restrained at all is his inspiration, not by question of taste at all, not by question of art at all, not by question of what-is-absurd-and-what-is-not-absurd at all. For absurd often is his inspiration, not dictated, no, nor emendated, not yet always ill-fated, for children are absurd nor yet always ill-fated; Vachel Lindsay is a child and not ill-fated. Walt Whitman was a mammoth child...
After all, it is somewhat absurd to think that the University cannot compete successfully with lunch counters and Greek cafeterias in providing for the student dining trade. These places are at present profiting hugely because they present a wide variety of food that is comparatively well prepared and not too expensive...
...where she works as a skimp-skirted waitress. The hero, disguised as a mere reporter, is in reality vice president of a rival film corporation. Love. In the end, everybody marries. The real show is "Peachy" Robinson (Joe E. Brown), rustic Sherlock Holmes. His sleuthing is most unaccountably absurd, occasions a fusillade of wisecracks. Actor Brown's mouth is the dentist's dream. Two human fists can enter here, wiggle around in the spacious cavity. Actor Brown makes full use of his natural asset. Altogether, a better than average entertainment in a season when musical comedy happens...
...Thinker. Fertile, vigorous, imaginative of mind, he disciplined himself to follow only inductive logic-from observation and experiment to hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...