Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said in a serious tone might be erased because he is not supposed to say things like that. By saying something with a half-boob air . . . he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...
...conveying a thought by indirection. He makes it appear that he is not personally responsible for the thought, but there it is. . . . I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out-and-out, even at the cost of a good position at the feed trough...
...threatening clouds of Soviet expansion were beginning to precipitate. Last fortnight, as negotiations between Iran and its rebel Soviet-sponsored Azerbaijan province broke down, Azerbaijan's Russian-installed Radio Tabriz declaimed: "We declare war against Iran. . . ." Later Tabriz dispatches explained that poor flying weather postponed the war. Last week Tabriz reported that Teheran troops were attacking Azerbaijan along 150 miles of the Kurdistan front...
Life & Death. Suggestive as it is of death (it is second only to heart troubles as top U.S. killer), cancer is in fact life run wild: a multiplication of cells, but in abnormal pattern. The riddle of the disease will not be solved until the secrets of the rebel cells which ravage human tissue are revealed. Meanwhile, the answer must be sought through research in the basic sciences of chemistry, biology and physics...
...Camus pictures him, Meursault is neither crazy nor criminal; nor is he a conscious rebel protesting against the pressures of society. He is simply a person who "exists," a man to whom nothing really matters. He has no positive beliefs, political or nonpolitical. Before committing the murder, he goes about his daily work, makes friends casually, attends his mother's funeral casually, casually promises to marry a girl. When the time comes. he quite as casually pulls the trigger of the revolver. Meursault does not regret it. Murder, he feels, makes no difference, for everything in life comes...