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...religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara of faith, albeit he paddles strenuously upstream towards his professed atheism. Witty, skeptical, man-intoxicated, Camus may never take the final leap of religious faith, but he is already...
...short cut to material progress. Recently John Foster Dulles warned Americans that the Communists' "cruel system . . . does have a certain fascination for the peoples of underdeveloped countries who feel that their own economies are standing still." The danger is that those who compulsively hunger for economic advance will opt for the Communist alter native, if democracy's methods are too slow...
...books serve as a check on the honor system since girls who come in after curfew sign in late and girls whose nights out are limited by academic probation betray themselves by singing opt...
ROBERT J. PEARCE, Opt. D. Greensboro...
Miss Bainter is most opt mistie about the modern stage. "People often come and ask me to join some uplift society or other, but nothing is to be accomplished by these methods. The drama is going through a cycle, and will come through stronger than ever. The present phase is just transient...