Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Hollow Laughter. In The Night of Time, Author Fü;p-Miller, an encyclopedic, Hungarian-born historian who teaches sociology at Manhattan's Hunter College, produced a soberly symbolic essay on the fatuity of war. Wider in scope, The Silver Bacchanal reveals man as an Absurd Animal, torn between hope and despair, ideal love and an insatiable lust. Fü;p-Miller's instrument of dissection is irony, e.g., the army's bureaucratic campaign against disease-carrying houseflies, in which the city is divided into sectors manned by bumbling brigades of swatters. But the laughter...
...your ill-mannered article on yoga [July 11], you have made no bones about the fact that you consider, along with Benedictine Déchanet, the Hindu conception of God as the Supreme Self as absurd...
...vengeful, peeking, bumbling fellow who botched his job so badly that he created man imperfect, then cursed the whole race of man for the same imperfection, and could find no better way out of the dilemma than to allow his "son" to die a tortured death even more absurd...
...unvaried strangulated hush." Charging to her defense, gallant young Author John Updike first of all pointed out in a letter to the editors that "she is a terrific-looking woman." Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn." Sniffed Kauffmann, in what tellectuals" undoubtedly is like not the Updike, "a last film word: to theater "in is a kind of steam bath or opium den to which one goes for a faintly wicked and figuratively supine little debauch...
President Eisenhower could, at his discretion, restore any part of the sugar cuts, presumably adjusting the amount to the extent of reprisal he deems prudent. Ike's new powers would make sense out of the absurd system whereby the U.S., by paying 5? per lb., is subsidizing the losses that Cuba suffers in exporting sugar to the U.S.S.R. at the below-cost price of 2¼ per lb. in exchange for Russian crude oil. Cuba's quota would be shifted to other regular foreign suppliers...