Word: absurdity
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...fervor caused his incarceration for a brief spell at Alipore. Noncoöperation was soon proved to be leading nowhere. Of the 46 million Bengalese, not 10% voluntarily supported the movement; while an insignificant but dangerous section of the population thought non-coöperation the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly in the holy waters of the Ganges, what did it matter to them who ruled India? And, farther south, the millions of Tamils, Telagus, and others knew little, saw little, felt little, except the heat...
...Westminster Gazette (London), editorially referring to the same uplifter, called him "too absurd for serious people to consider...
That there actually exists in the colleges a condition of "moral chaos" is as absurd as it is untrue. Some capable investigator ought to examine this charge against the colleges for the benefit of the general public. Among those who do not know, this will be the only way to dispel an erroneous impression created by a certain type of current fiction on college life...
...past had volunteer recruits beyond the Versailles quota and had manufactured munitions in defiance of the Treaty, but he declared that this was done to meet critical situations involving civil war. The present situation, he insisted, was regular and conformed to the treaty limits. "It is," he said, "absurd to talk about secret preparations. And they know this perfectly well in Entente lands...
...play itself appropriately is a farce concerned with box-office failures, actors contracts, and the formation of casts. It is a burlesque of all that goes on in the making of a great American drama, both in front and in back of the foot-lights. There is an absurd and highly melodramatic dress rehearsal wherein the lights come on at the wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna...