Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply to a question about theater criticism the actress declared that criticizing a play is difficult because theater is too spontaneous a medium, too fitting for its moment, to be thought out in an alien way later on. Critics must learn that to be kind to a play they must lash into it, she explained. The critic who praises a bad play, or even a mediocre one, she said, fails to understand the cruelty of being so kind...
...Alien Planets. If a life-forming process happened on earth, said Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University, something similar probably happened on millions of other planets in the universe, and may have produced highly intelligent creatures...
...Myth of Sisyphus he confronted a still greater enemy: the universe itself. "In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger." Yet named man, he said, must not abandon the struggle against the irrational and pitiless place that he inhabits. Camus rejected both the Leap of Faith, which begs the question, and the suicide which follows logically from despair. The hero of his existential battle gets one lucid glimpse of the finality of his situation, realizes that he is an incongruity in the universe, and then rebels against it with all his being...