Word: sisyphus
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...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...
...back. During the past hundred years, let alone the past thousand, we have made almost unbelievable material and social progress; what has not changed is the nature of humanity and our never ending challenge: to keep working, to keep mending, to keep building. It has been suggested that Sisyphus is the myth most typical of the human condition. A better choice might be Faust, who, after all his dealings with God and the devil (not to mention Helen and Gretchen), winds up erecting dams against the tides of the North Sea, dams that are never totally secure and must always...
...director Jan Segla now wants Prague to forgive the debt. He also wants more financial / assistance to liquidate production lines designed to manufacture tanks. "The heritage of special production is why our factory is in such bad economic shape today," he says. "It's the labor of Sisyphus to keep this plant working, and we need the government's help...