Word: sisyphus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back to work, Sisyphus! Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at reviving the moribund peace process collapsed Wednesday, and both sides immediately called for Washington to intercede. "Netanyahu wants to slowly kill the Oslo Accords even while proclaiming his commitment to them," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "He wants to keep the process going without ever achieving an end result. The Palestinians have no leverage, and Israel isn't going to be moved without pressure from Washington, which is unlikely to happen. So right now the peace process is a dead horse...
...cheered for the same damn play over and over...it was like watching Sisyphus do his labors," Dennis F. Gillespie '70 told The Crimson in December...
...mythical character Sisyphus, was commanded to push a large boulder up a hill. Whenever he seemed to reach the top, the boulder would come crashing down the hill and thus he never reached his salvation. Similarly, the Crimson (4-9, 0-4) has repeatedly come so close to victory, but each time it has been unable to grasp the really big, season making wins...
...famous when he was killed in a car crash south of Paris on Jan. 4, 1960. Within this short life, Albert Camus had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature and produced a compact body of novels (The Stranger, The Plague), plays (Caligula) and philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus) that both defined and helped create a 20th century temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds for doing so. Camus seemed to embody the laconic stoicism of his works. He was reserved in public; in many of his photographs...
...Harvard men's basketball team played the role of Sisyphus last night in a tough 83-64 loss to Cornell in Ithaca...