Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playwright of the man who stands alone contemplating the difficulty of human communication, Genet represents the man who has been kicked to the ground and lies screaming. Only it's not a man at all: it's a woman and a homoexual and a convict. For, like the Atheist of the joke who antagonizes his religious friends by saying: "Sure, I believe in an anthropomorphic God: she's a Negro," Genet warns that White Christian Civilization must face up to its outcasts...
Present membership includes 20 students, among them "non-theists" (the Humanist appellation for atheist); "agnostics with consciences," and "humanists, who emphasize the importance...
...where is hell? Is it perhaps in a two-dimensional space? This would be devilishly uncomfortable for the damned and justly so. Or are heaven and hell one and the same place? After all, one man's heaven is another man's hell. Imagine the atheist in eternal contemplation of God, whom he so viciously denied. And the blessed could see and enjoy his embarrassment...
...Harvard--theist or atheist--possesses cultural references in a community where most people have none. Witness Mosaic...
...comedy is buoyantly performed, a happy tour de farce. Donald Moffat, in the role of John Tarleton, the self-taught underwear tycoon, is the image of Shaw's young old man, the drawing-room atheist who quotes his chosen gospels: "Read Ibsen. Read Dickens. Read Whatshisname." As his daughter Hypatia, Frances Sternhagen seems to have been born with a riding crop in hand and the conviction that the pursuit of a mate is the most exciting form of fox hunt. James Greene is cringingly comic as a socialist underdog who yearns to bite the hand that feeds...