Word: absurdity
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...award to Bernard Shaw of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. I refused to explain my stand, saying I was 'not looking for publicity.' I noted that Rebecca West, the distinguished English novelist, is reported to have said: 'In England we all feel it is perfectly absurd the Nobel Prize has never been awarded to Thomas Hardy. It is regarded as a grave reflection upon the manner in which the winner is selected. We don't feel it should go to any one else until Hardy has been recognized...
...wife and I have come to a conclusion that you who run this TIME must be either too fresh or awfully crazy, to waste all that space asking useless questions about who reads a magazine, as if you really cared. You ask questions in absurd ways we think too. Who ever called his children "Males from 10 to 20" or "Females" ? What do you care how many automobiles I got ? I bought your magazine, didn't I and that should be enough...
...unnecessarily hard on children," said the fatherly New York Times in a recent editorial, "to put before them sloppily written stories of impossible people in an absurd world...
...also unnecessarily hard on children and their parents to put before them sloppily stacked tons of juvenile literature and expect them to choose between what is absurd and what is artistic, entertaining, instructive...
...charge of sensationalism must remain absurd. Perhaps the protests of upperclassmen may be explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...