Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaciton last Tuesday night was to take the wrestlers at Boston Garden seriously. Watching a midget scamper around the ring and pretend to be frightened of another midget impressed me as being just about the most demeaning thing a man could do. Seeing someone sacrifice his human dignity and his manliness for a laugh isn't my idea of comedy...
...Basel University. Most of his works were agonizingly abstruse and seemingly preoccupied with reconciliation to failure and death as prescriptions for personal salvation. But The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (1949) was both a definitive defense of his own existentialist position and a vigorous affirmation of the durability of the human spirit...
Instead, she has made out of her culture conflict an exquisite nonfiction novel of sensibility. As a documentary study of human beings in adversity, it deserves a place next to Oscar Lewis' The Children of Sanchez. As an artistic creation, Torregreca'?, eloquence often matches an even greater book, James Agee's enduring Let Us Now Praise Famous...
Edward Stewart's characters are so folded, spindled and mutilated that the mind's computer tends to reject them as not altogether human. Yet they have a way of engaging the reader with their perverse antics and comic, but horrific, deeds. Stewart's first novel, Orpheus on Top, marked him as a humorist of darkest hue. In this, his second, he has created an "entertainment" worthy of France's Grand Guignol theater...
...plot ravels, the author spoofs a variety of human miseries, including college musicals, graduate clubs, the New York Police Department, love, marriage and funerals. These grotesqueries are achieved with a satiric style that matches the droll gazelles of Stewart's imagination. However, far from merely a formless pastiche of perverse events, Stewart has actually created an absurd murder mystery with a strong narrative structure. The clues, leading back to a 20-year-old college musical production and a war refugee organization, are pursued by two bumbling characters who keep the story full of suspense right up to the final...