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...GABRIEL FREEMAN...
...Many a modern intellectual who calls himself an atheist is really engaged in a creative search for the divine, said Miller. He recalled that Albert Camus once said he did not believe in God but was not an atheist, for "that is far too easy an answer." Wrote Gabriel Marcel: "When we speak of God, it is not God we speak...
From the far-flung corners of the Moslem world, pilgrims last week converged on Mecca, city of the Prophet's birth, where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts...
Carrying signs reading "Trailways Discrimination Against Negroes" and "Greybound in the South Ignores Supreme Court," the picketers marched up and down in front of the terminals on the Square and on St. James Avenue. William A. Gamson, research associate Social Psychology, Gabriel M. Kolko, teaching fellow in History, and Todd A. '63 formed half of the CORE brigade at the Greybound station...
...further development of this thought is in Why Spain?, a reply to Gabriel Marcel's stinging attack on Camus' play, Etat de Slege. Enslavement, metaphysical or historical, has only one answer--rebellion. And Camus is not "willing to keep silent about one reign of terror in order the better to combat another one". "The world I live in," he explains, "is loathsome to me. But I feel one with the men who suffer in it." Camus began, politically and philosophically, where his generation stopped: at despair. But in spite of and in a way because of despair, he continued...