Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assumption behind the system is that the national origins of 1920 America had made the country great and that the government must not let the ethnic balance of that glorious year be disturbed. This idea is absurd in principle and disastrous in application...
...sense, the whole spectacle is absurd. If you view education as a human rather than an institutional enterprise, then it hardly matters where X is, so long as he is happy and gets along passably with his colleagues. No matter where he is, he will be able to promote scholarship by publishing articles on Chaucer and to promote education by unfolding the Canterbury tales to a few interested students...
Kitchener, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a hussar's busby...
...always referred to Gertrude's early days as the best period of her life: the days before she caught what he called "the absurd notion of genius." Later, when she visited America in 1934, she had become a Lion. On her one-night stay in Cambridge, when she lectured to Harvard and Radcliffe, Miss Stein wrote...
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, by Philip Magnus. The triumph and tragedy of a true believer in the white man's burden, a Briton as archaic, absurd and appealing as a guardsman's busby...