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...left." But he traveled no farther than Spain. No ideologue, he never accepted the Marxist doublethink that enabled so many others to blind themselves to the Communists' secret-police tactics, and in For Whom the Bell Tolls he conveyed some of his disillusionment, to the anguish of his left-wing admirers. Dos Passos considered joining the party, but was soon disillusioned and paid for it by being denounced as the possessor of a "poisoned ideology and sick soul." Dreiser became a steadier, more devout believer and platform Marxist, died in the party...
...each other as they struggle with fetters of body and spirit. He tells her how he was locked out of his church for "fornication and heresy-in the same week." His revenge: loveless lecheries with teen-age girls, one of whom (Lane Bradbury) claws at his door with embarrassing anguish. Hannah tells him of pathetic fingertip brushes with love. Touched by their mutual need, Shannon asks if they might not make a go of life together. It is Hannah's kindness to be cruel. "Accept whatever situation you cannot improve," she has told him, and releases...
...purely private affair, and that if a man and a women choose to live together without having children, that should be no one's business but their own." The exceeding difficulty of obtaining a divorce in England--Russell has been married four times--has caused him considerable anguish. Surely his own marital problems have enhanced his allure among the non-reading public, as have such books as Why I am not a Christian...
...communicate with, and relate to, his fellow man. In 1952, in Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett defined the assumption underlying the metaphysical quest of the theater of the absurd: the absence of God and the emptiness of God-bereft man. Beckett's theater is one of deep existential anguish: "The boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being." Beckett's writing also contains an elegiac, apocalyptic note. The world is running down: "Something is taking its course...
...judges, Professors Rosenberg and Woodworth and Radcliffe's Dean Sherman, awarded second place to Eliot Hall for its song about the dorm being swallowed up by the new House System. The girls of Whitman, singing of the anguish of paper writing, won third prize...