Word: camus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better"; "This is a time to begin again"-are borrowed almost verbatim from Jack's vintage-'60 speeches. He makes the same effective use of statistics, from rates of birth to frequency of rat bites; he, too, sprinkles his talks with erudite quotations, from Archimedes and Camus, Goethe and Shaw. And like Jack's, his political persona is considerably more adventurous than his explicit statements and positions...
...play is immensely theatrical, sensuous and intellectual. Apart from being Pirandello's greatest work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling...
...late evenings of the second week of October, peaceful insurgents stalked Boston's colleges posting four-page white pamphlets entitled "RESIST OCTOBER 16." On the second page of the pamphlet, a photostat of a ripped draft card framed a quote from Camus...
...STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lie both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti has not found a cinematic technique for translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the despairing hero...
...STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' fine novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti does not find a cinematic way of translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the hero suffering from alienation and despair...