Word: camus
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, by Albert Camus. Sometimes called "the conscience of the age," the late great Frenchman lives up to that title in these lucid and luminous essays...
...enemies call him the "Mad Apostle." Admirers call him a saint. Awards like the Lenin Peace Prize, support from both leftist and conservative groups in Italy and Europe, and acclaim from such different figures as Camus and Aldous Huxley make it difficult to determine just what kind of movement Dolci is leading. All that you can definitely say is that Dolci has been able to capture the imaginations of men throughout the world. His movement is non-violent, and he shuns politics as a source of corruption, yet he is attempting a regional development plan for all of eastern Sicily...
...Camus' play will open at Dunster House in the middle of April...
...appears next as a French patriot during the German occupation. Camus was an underground fighter and won a celebrated anonymity for his editorials contributed to the illegal Combat. The experience did two things for his prose style. He guarded and measured out his words as if they were blood plasma, and he was so totally committed that later he could write to someone doing some painless cheering for the Hungarian rebels: ''We may be generous only with our own blood." Camus was not just a voter in a democracy; he was one of its votaries...
...Finally, Camus appears as a man in conscious conflict with himself, as a man of profound Christian instincts but a humanist by faith. In all his controversial and critical writing, he constantly appeals to the principles of a Christianity he repudiated. When Camus touches directly on this issue, vital to the whole pattern of his life, he becomes, for the first time, almost tongue-tied. In an address to Dominicans who had invited him to speak, he wonders aloud whether he is in danger of being a "lay pharisee" when he claims the right to ask Christians to be Christians...