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...king is told his fate with absurd and explicit clarity at the play's beginning: "You're going to die in an hour and a half. You're going to die at the end of the play." His name is Berenger -lonesco's Everyman, who was the clerk in Rhinoceros, the clown in The Airborne Pedestrian. With typical lonesco chronology, King Berenger is about 400 years old, but his reign seems to span thousands of years. He is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow, designing the airplane, splitting the atom, and writing Shakespeare's plays. Once...
Like a pair of Oxford dons, an American father and son sit down for several hours of vigorous tape-recorded discussions of ethics. Occasionally the exchange gets rough ("I think what you said is outrageous." "Why, that's crazy! That's absurd"). But the vehemence only testifies to the fact that the men involved think and feel deeply. They respond to each other from positions of strength and conviction. Paul Weiss, 66, is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale, founder and longtime editor of the Review of Metaphysics; he ranks among the leading speculative philosophers...
...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a comedy of terrors, tickling the funny bone with the feather of the absurd while scratching away at the skin with the razor edge of truth...
...BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a comedy of terrors, tickling the funny bone with the feather of the absurd while scratching away at the skin with the razor edge of truth...
...this mystical melange, hippie communities are developing clearly identifiable sects, with their own clergy, formal meetings and even liturgy. These groups borrow unabashedly from all three main strands of the psychedelic faith. The Neo-American Church, whose pastors are known as "boo-hoos" (the absurd title is meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross...