Word: camus
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...They are born for pride and life," wrote Albert Camus of his fellow Algerians. He added somberly that in Algeria "everything is given to be taken away." Perhaps Camus was right. The Algerian cities last week were ravaged by death and disfiguration. The immediate cause, ironically enough, was the prospect that the grim, seven-year war in Algeria might end in a cease-fire now being negotiated between the French government and the Moslem F.L.N. rebels. According to Paris reports, an agreement is scheduled to be signed within a month?or possibly sooner. To most of Algeria...
...finished introducing him) threatens the pornographers, and the bookseller accepts the collective guilt of his healed cripples and goes to prison for them. Rather unnecessarily, Bloomfield has one of his characters point out the symbolism. Samson, then, is saviour, after all, and his gospel is a passage from Albert Camus: "I hate virtue that is only smugness; I hate the frightful morality of the world, and I hate it because it ends, just like absolute cynicism, in demoralizing men and keeping them from running their own lives with their own just measures of meanness and magnificence...
...lost. In scenes of inane family cackle, and in the spectacle of a cuckolded husband applauding his wife flagrante delicto ("Congratulations, Heloise. You're getting better every time"), Playwright Marceau approaches the existential nausea toward life that animates the "theater of the absurd" (TIME, Dec. 22). Sartre and Camus have obviously influenced Marceau, but the guiding philosophy behind Broadway's Egg seems to be Minsky...
Aspiring & Striving. "All of us French intellectuals have had to come to terms with the same problem," he told a friend last week in the U.S., where he is currently on a lecture tour. "Camus and Sartre and Malraux saw life the way I did-as meaningless and absurd, with war the most meaningless absurdity of all. And yet, instead of withdrawing and doing our best to avoid suffering, which would be the logical course, we all worked hard and risked our lives in the Resistance. Why? Another way of asking this is: What...
RESISTANCE, REBELLION AND DEATH, by Albert Camus. These actuelles, as the author called them, are short, passionate sermons on the theology of politics, justice and death, several of them written during World War II as editorials for the underground paper Combat. Camus thought as highly of them as he did of his novels and longer philosophical essays, and he may well have been right...