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...sidewalk existentialists said that, since nothing really mattered very much, everything mattered. Since life was too utterly futile, everybody ought to live it to the hilt. "It is absurd for us to be born," proclaimed existentialism's protector, Jean-Paul Sartre. "It is absurd for us to die." For Parisian intellectuals, desperately in quest of an interesting pose, this was the ticket...
...Phoenicia, N.Y., State Game Protector Henry Bernstein reported that red, the traditional distinguishing mark of hunters, is no longer of much help; too many hunters are colorblind. Elsewhere, experienced hands dressed so as to blend with the background, figuring that they would then have as much chance of survival as a deer...
...fighting minority of Filipinos had threatened to make the election a shambles. But the Communist-led Huk* were too disorganized to carry out the threat. The Philippine army, which had dominated past elections as the gun-twirling bully of the politicians in power, dominated this one as the disciplined protector of the voters. Politicians who had ridden into office in 1949 on the votes of "the trees, the birds, the insects and the monkeys" could this time use only human votes...
...relevant facts of a musical event; (2) as a teacher placing musical works in a relation to other works and to the cultural and intellectual climate of the times; (3) as an evaluator, stating his opinions both of the music itself and its performance; (4) as a champion and protector of musical life in his community and of the composer; and (5) as a provocative entertainer, holding the interest of the reader and compelling him to think for himself...
...ground that he may have some truth, or near truth, to offer which can not be had elsewhere, and if Dr. Conant will say, before having heard the Communist, that he does not, cannot, have some truth to offer, then I say that he has forfeited his role as protector of free thought and expression in the university and should yield to a men who will defend these basic freedoms. Robert Wolff...