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Sartre argued that life is basically absurd, because man knows he must die. No one had a sharper sense of death than Camus, who suffered intermittently from tuberculosis, and he loathed nothing more: "Impossible to exaggerate the ridiculous quality of an event that is normally accompanied by sweating and gurgling. It could not be too far demoted from the sacred status normally attributed to it." But instead of driving him to despair, Camus' awareness of death made him love the life he had even more intensely. He had occasional longings for the permanent and eternal: "Beauty is unbearable . . offering...
Rogers was subjected to close questioning after his talk, but leaders of the program predict that Henry A. Kissenger '50, professor of Government may draw even sharper queries today...
...Sharper Competition. The Common Market economies at midyear are growing at 4.5% on an annual basis.- Britain's growth rate is edging close to the 4% charted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, and some economists predict that it will exceed 6% in the second half. Partly because a 2% unemployment rate has steadied labor costs and export prices, Britain's exports in the first half rose 6% over the same period in 1962, its balance-of-payments surplus hit a four-year high, and the pound sterling strengthened...
...lured rich and poor, Jansenists and Protestants, Bourbon princes, colonial Americans, Turks and even Chinese. The best students were often uncut diamonds like Jean Baptiste Poquelin, son of a long line of upholsterers. The Jesuits put him on a diet of Terence, Lucretius, and French drama. Wielding a pen sharper than a needle, he became the playwright Molière. Perverts & Premiers. All this so impressed Louis XIV, the Sun King, that in 1682 he took over the place and declared "Ourself founder." The faculty, rendering unto Caesar, removed "Jesus" from the front door and put up "Ludovici Magni" (Louis...
...must question the desirability of encouraging such ideas--which may be understandable in the context of African experience--in a country where ethical norms and historical progress point in the opposite direction. The question becomes even sharper when one notes that a principal strategy of conversion to these ideas is to allege that those Negroes whose experience has led them to different conclusions have "sold out" to the offay "enemy": to call them "Uncle Toms" and arouse, through emotional ideologizing, a sense of guilt designed to lead them to positions which, in an atmosphere less charged emotionally, might be wholly...