Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Revolt of the Machines. Greatest challenge to man's ascendancy is not other living creatures but mechanical monsters of his own creation, argued Mathematician Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. Dr. Wiener, inventor of the word "cybernetics" (science of control mechanisms), and No. i cybernetic philosopher, solemnly warned that computers and other educated machines may yet outgrow man's control. He rejected the common and cheerful opinion that machines can never have any degree of originality. "It is my thesis," said Wiener, "that machines can and do transcend some of the limitations of their designers...
Because he was a merciless critic of the ways of man, he nowhere suggested that his rebel is without sin, pure in his revolt against oppression. But at the end of The Plague he wrote: "There are in man more things to be admired than things to be scorned." Scorn was reserved for death, while man, with all his deceit and selfishness, was always worth the saving of himself...
...wrote The Rebel in 1956, picturing man as the victim of a political and social world in which even his saviors seek to debase and enslave him. But he required that man revolt. He himself participated in the French underground during World War II, and in 1957 he quoted the words of Richard Hilary: "We were fighting this lie in the name of a half-truth." But he went on to say" "There are even occasions when a lie must be fought in the name of a quarter-truth. The quarter-truth...is called freedom. And freedom is the road...
...most normal reaction to such words is one of passive administration, and this is what is most to be feared. For Camus himself delivers a mandate of direct and immediate response: we must live the demands of the revolt he describes. In this sense he acted as the conscience of the times...
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars (Janus Films). Russia's Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) has been described as the Michelangelo of the cinema. In the '20s, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World and Old and New established him as the film's greatest master of vast composition and dynamic form. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, he started work on a huge film chronicle of the reign of Ivan the Terrible. For Part 1, which was shown in the U.S. (TIME, April 14, 1947), Eisenstein won a Stalin Prize...