Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butler pointed out that the Asian Flu inoculations are a "crash program," and that the excess equipment would probably not be used enough to justify its purchase...
...Madness of Excess. Operating from the underlying premise that God does not exist, Camus argued in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) that the certainty of death made life itself a ridiculous charade, and therefore "absurd." He likened man's lot to the somber task of the Greek mythic hero Sisyphus, who was condemned by the gods to roll a huge boulder to the top of a hill, only to see it roll down again, to the end of time. But from this recognition Camus drew his own peculiar sustenance: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged," i.e., knowledge...
...victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned to attack the pestilence of modern revolutionary ideologies: "Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police or folly." To curb the "madness of excess" which breeds the "hangmen" of the extreme left or right, Camus counseled a return to the "Greek Middle Way" of reason and classical restraint...
...vulgar and shameless, but it is also a beautifully written, classic portrayal of the romantic temperament. Two of a kind, Caitlin and Dylan Thomas reveal the tragic flaw in that temperament. To intensify every passing moment of life, the romantic must live at an ever-quickening pace. Moving from excess to excess, he must demand more and more of himself. Pursued frantically enough, this course can result only in madness or death; persistent echoes of both ring through this book. Not since Dylan Thomas himself has there been anyone who could have written it - with all its sickening self-indulgence...
...until the Spring weekend of 1957, however, that events reached what might, perhaps, be termed an excess...