Word: camus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...majority of the French people had been cleared of any taint of guilt, a wide spectrum of political groups could re-enter French politics on a roughly equal basis regardless of the real role they played during the war. The chief French culture heroes of the '50s and '60s, Camus and Sartre, each had connections with the Resistance that persuaded Leftist intellectuals to go along with the consensus. But since the disgrace and death of de Gaulle, this consensus has been exploded, and Frenchmen have eagerly devoured a whole succession of books and movies about the Occupation ever since...
...wavey classics. The series begins Wednesday with Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. The Truffaut is wonderful but confusing entertainment and the second film is Bergman at his lovliest and most comprehensible. On Thursday you can check out Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, a visually stunning but cineamagraphically blurred document on life in the slums of Rio de Janero...
...those of us who are not gentlemen, the paradox of football delights and intrigues. Albert Camus played goal. Sir Frederick Ayer, the philosopher, is a fan, and there is a sense in which soccer is a fair subject for a logical positivist. It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics...
...idealist. I would answer that the real idealists were those who believed that the world could continue to groan onward without completely falling apart, that I was actually a realist because I saw change as imperative. I also answered by using an old worn-out quote from Albert Camus--"Perhaps we cannot feed all the starving children in the world. But we can surely feed some of them. If you will not help us do this, who will help us do this?" And for all the quote's disarming simplicity, I still believe it. President...
...thing that can be safely said about Italians involved with organized crime is that they are mostly dull and stupid people. Movies such as "The Godfather" have glorified the life of criminals. Most criminals follow a dull routine which involves constant risks. Few of them read Sartre and Camus like Joey Gallo was reputed to have done; getting through the Daily News each day is a major accomplishment for most. Because of the code of violence they live under, people involved in organized crime does take and whatever businesses it is involved with, it is not a pleasant...