Word: essay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Camus' point seems to be that the world makes no sense, that life as it has to be lived by human beings adds up to almost exactly nothing. In an essay called The Myth of Sisyphus, he once asserted that the only important philosophical problem confronting humanity is that of suicide. The Stranger, despite its simple and vivid writing, is about as negative and futile...
...other sordid details-all inspired by Cloacina, Goddess of the Sewers -appear in British Author Reginald Reynolds' Cleanliness and Godliness-"A Discussion of the Problems of Sanitation from Earliest Times to the Present Day." Unlike most plumbings of such channels, Cleanliness and Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet ("his name [is] writ in water"), and Victorian...
...prelude to its hundredth birthday party July 4, the City of Cambridge Centennial Committee is sponsoring an essay contest with a $200 first prize for which University students may compete it was announced yesterday through David M. Little '18, Secretary to the University...
...resigned from the faculty in 1938, in poor health, the Campus editorialized: "We Won't Let Him." In 1940 he emerged from retirement to defend Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who was first appointed to C.C.N.Y., then dismissed (on grounds that he was not of "moral character"). Cohen's essay on this "scandalous denial of justice" reflects both his intense enthusiasms and his considerable legal abilities. Though a layman, he has influenced Frankfurter and many another jurist. In his writings, he is as unsparing of friends like Holmes, Brandeis and Einstein as he is of his enemies...
...When Reither came home from parting with Minnow, he found his household just the way it always was. His sister, the Honorable Caroline von Wrbata-Treuenfels, was coldly examining a roast goose's wingbone through her lorgnette. Son Max Egon was at work on his great essay: Life, a Disease of Our Planet. Son-in-law Dr. Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with whipped cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling...