Word: phoney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Camus answers, because man achieves a nobility, a feeling of exhilaration from recognizing the absurdity of existence and deciding to live a committed life nevertheless. But I suspect there is something phoney about Camus' noble affirmation--it's too conveniently noble; one doubts how real an alternative suicide was for Camus. Director David Wheeler's Caligula, which opened Thursday evening, quite properly emphasizes the agonizing psychological turmoil which precedes strictly logical murdering...
Whether the basis of this idea is essentially phoney, as Denton intimates is no doubt an important query. But I would appreciate seeing the kind of evidence Denton has to indicate that the idea has no meaningful relationship to the historical fact of the type of relationship Negroes (in Old and New World) have had with the technologically advanced societies of the west...
...romance builds happily until Mirsky returns ostentatious effort to violate once this image of innocence. How now that she knows true love, can see through the phoney, and chooses to marry the hard- fellowship-winning Scott. Because in these in-group affairs l everyone else, Mirsky and the sexual tutor are both invited wedding, where true to Jew comments slightingly about food, and says something to the of Curses, foiled again...
...seemed, at any rate, in Medford on Tuesday night, but it would still be interesting to see what eight or ten good character actors could make of it. The performance at Tufts has all the stigmata of bad amateurism: elaborate posturing; sporadic and phoney attempts at the proper accents; cliche characterizations; apple-cheeked students looking highly uncomfortable under assumed grey hair. The casting seems to have been done on the eenie-meenie-miney-mo system, but in spite of this and other mis- and malfeasances, the director, Marston Balch, is more to be pitied than censured. Whatever may have been...