Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cell walls of 20th century man's bedeviled self, few writers have inscribed more powerful images of revolt against the "absurdity" of man's fate than France's Albert Camus. Last week the 43-year-old novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, editor and Resistance leader was decorated with literature's Legion of Honor, the 1957 Nobel prize, for "clearsighted earnestness which illuminates the problems of the human conscience of our times." Not since Rudyard Kipling received the award in 1907 at the age of 41 had it been granted to so young...
...death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned to attack the pestilence of modern revolutionary ideologies: "Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police or folly." To curb the "madness of excess" which breeds the "hangmen" of the extreme left or right, Camus counseled a return to the "Greek Middle Way" of reason and classical restraint...
...bring themselves to believe that the Russians were entirely perfect. By the time a child was nine or ten he began to realize that he was being cheated out of a real education. The disciplines that had been imposed since the start of his schooling kept him from open revolt, and he continued to parrot communist teachings, but resentment had begun to make him reject much of what he was taught. An anecdote indicates the spirit of those years...
...death of thousands of Hungarians in the fight is a loss that free people have mourned, but perhaps not fully appreciated. Granted that the West can do little but give refuge and solace to the survivors of the October revolt and censure their persecutors, it still has failed to pay full tribute to the cause for which the men and women of Budapest died...
...Hungarian revolt and its brutal repression by the Russians served to remind the Western world as well as the uncommitted nations of the true nature of the Communist system. In deflating Kremlin propaganda, the freedom fighters made a great contribution to the cause for which they died...