Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australia's participation in Viet Nam. Holt, 58, has committed Australian draftees to the war and Australian prestige to the containment of Asian Communism. Calwell, 70, demands an end to the draft, a pullback from Viet Nam and the votes of "600,000 Australian mothers whose boys could die or be wounded in the long, cruel, dirty...
...came home in time, and Helen became an "attempt" instead of a coroner's statistic. Did she really want to die, or was she just making a gesture? Helen does not know now, and her ambivalence is typical; experts on suicide believe that most acts aimed at self-destruction, whether or not they succeed, are really attempts to reach out for others -ill and awful ways of crying, "Help...
...even in despair, from stubborn hope and a dimly realized sense of duty to the miracle of life. Camus' own answer was that revolt against the apparent meaninglessness of existence is noble, and that to revolt is to live-suicide is submission. He did not submit; he died in an auto accident in 1960. "It is essential to die unreconciled," he had said, "and not of one's own free will...
...Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, many psychiatrists are considering the possibility of a hitherto-unnamed neurosis that predisposes its victims to suicidal tendencies: they "are just as disinclined to be ill as, for instance, tuberculosis patients; they are not free in making their decisions to die...
Thanks to the driving tempo and inventive direction of Joseph Chaikin and Jacques Levy and the flawlessly integrated playing of a versatile cast, Playwright Van Itallie conveys an especially timely sensation, that of a world of fragmented experience so speeded up past human endurance that a man must either die laughing or go mad. America Hurrah is as lively as a sand tick. It is anguishingly funny, yet oddly poignant, and more than passing wise in the ways of today's world...