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...absurdists in terms of man's inability to 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...
...Macleod, who conceded inevitable accessions to the colonies gracefully and with some flair, has thrown off his heavy departmental burden for the offices of Chairman of the Party and Leader of the House. But now bereft of the solidarity of departmental backing, his position as heir apparent to the Prime Ministry is by no means secure. And his replacement in the Colonial Office is the ambitious and unpredictable Reginald Maulding, who is likely to follow a new progressive line in his administration only if he is sure there is one to follow...
...cause of liberty's survival. The clouds of war still gathered over Berlin. In Southeast Asia, Communist Viet Cong guerrillas increased the bloody pace of their raids on the communities of South Viet Nam. In Manhattan, the U.S. worked tirelessly to preserve the United Nations, suddenly bereft of its capable Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold...
...drops where she stands with a wild animal cry; she clutches at the urn, cradles and rocks it in entwining arms, spasmodically tries to breathe it back to life with words of love, smothers it with the salty, sightless kisses of tears, the strangulated sobs of a soul bereft. She is an open wound bleeding passion, and the spectator sees what is almost too shameless to see, grief at the pitch of human endurance. In an admirable company-Athens' Greek Tragedy Theater, now at Manhattan's City Center after stands in Los Angeles and Chicago-Actress Papathanassiou most...
...Senator Kefauver was far from bereft of support. To the witness stand he marched a parade of eleven noted doctors, nearly all of whom said that they favored S. 1552 only because they despaired of persuading the pharmaceutical industry to police itself. Outstanding items from their testimony...