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...alien, a stranger." Yet named man, he said, must not abandon the struggle against the irrational and pitiless place that he inhabits. Camus rejected both the Leap of Faith, which begs the question, and the suicide which follows logically from despair. The hero of his existential battle gets one lucid glimpse of the finality of his situation, realizes that he is an incongruity in the universe, and then rebels against it with all his being...
When Gen Ed A was instituted, the founders felt that all incoming students--no matter what their writing ability--could profit from a course in composition. The faculty's present attitude is one of preserving the original aims of the course--the development of coherent, lucid exposition--while recognizing that this objective may be obtained by several methods...
Lewis Lehman's staging in the intimate scenes is frequently static, (in the first scene, for instance, he has Mr. Lurtsema rooted to an armchair for what seems an eternity) but his crowd scenes are nicely handled. And his interpretation of the play is lucid and valid. Cherie Hughes has some very nice lighting effects, but the set, such as it was, could have stood a bit more imagination and atmosphere...
...learned more about writing from White than from anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed...
...works. Improvisatoy bombast characterizes the Hymne d'actions de graces by the blind organist Jean Langlais. Messaien's fine Banquet celeste, though an early work, bears the clear stamp of its composer, who has refused to adhere to any "school." It is seraphic, and mystically inconclusive. Jehan Alain's lucid Phrygian Ballade and familiar Litanies point up the great loss we suffered when this young composer was tragically killed in World...