Word: camus
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Caligula (adapted from the French of Albert Camus by Justin O'Brien) scrutinizes one of the most nefarious rulers of history, whose one excuse for being a monster is that he was almost surely a madman. Camus wrote Caligula in 1938, an ominous time of madmen and monsters, but even then Caligula was not in any usual sense tendentious. No self-made, power-mad Brown-shirted or Black-shirted or Red dictator, Caligula was bred to the purple; endowed with unlimited power, what he came to thirst after was unlimited "freedom." Camus' Caligula, whose once very human blood...
Black Orpheus (French). An astonishing adaptation of the old legend, excitingly played by a Negro cast and impressively directed by Marcel Camus...
Black Orpheus (French). An astonishing adaptation of the old legend, excitingly played by a Negro cast and impressively directed by Marcel Camus...
...figure skater. d) A columnist. 88. Died. A 60-year-old author (On the Beach) who once said he would prefer to die "in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life"; of a stroke. His name: a) Albert Camus. c) Havelock Ellis...
...Havelock Ellis, d) Albert Camus. 90. Died. Margaret Sullavan, 50, actress, who after death revealed a cause of her tragic behavior. She left: a) A note about her frustrations...