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...also be a saint, a sage, or an averagely decent human being. Like Arthur Miller, another public accountant of guilt, Sartre wants to even the score of past wrongs, to wrench justice from fate. This mentality is impervious to the tragic sense, the view of existence best expressed by Ortega y Gasset when he said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying the sin. In Sartre's world, the problem of evil is as shallow...
Born. To María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 37, only child of Spain's Generalissimo Franco; and Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu Ortega y Bascarán, 41, Marqués de Villaverde: their seventh child, fifth daughter; in Madrid...
Burden of Choice. Americans have never really learned to speak of the "masses." Vast crowds do not give the U.S. the sense of doom that Ortega y Gasset felt when he shuddered about "mass man." Yet, sheer numbers are an overwhelming factor in the individual's existence. Demographers calculate that, given a U.S. population density of ten people per square mile in the mid-19th century, each American inside a ten-mile radius could "interact" with about 3,000 others. But the density in the U.S. today is 60 people per square mile, making possible interaction with nearly...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, raven-haired only child of Spain's Generalisimo Francisco Franco, and Dr. Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, tenth Marques de Villaverde, 40, heart and lung surgeon whose 17th century title puts him a notch below a grandee: their sixth child, fourth daughter...
Then there's Stan Williams. What I mean is that behind Koufax, Dyrsdale, and a revitalized Johnny Podres, there isn't much in the way of a fourth starter. The Dodger farm system is full of potentially great pitchers, but Joe Moeller, Pete Richert, Phil Ortega and Nick Willhite are far from ready for the majors...