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...Stranger. In San Francisco, the burglary trial of Edward J. Devlin was interrupted when a police inspector tapped Juror Vernon F. Bartholomew outside the courtroom, arrested him on a bad check charge...
...crime shows, CBS's Wanted (Thurs. 10:30 p.m.) and The Lineup (Fri. 10 p.m.), follow the Dragnet pattern of sticking to fact, however stranger fiction may be. Wanted told the unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate...
...seem totally deaf to others usually have some slight remnant of hearing. With the help of powerful hearing aids, that remnant can be trained to distinguish speech rhythms. Sign language, Clarke insists, produces only a limited vocabulary. It calls attention to the handicap, keeps the deaf child perpetually a stranger in the world of the hearing...
Fantasy almost all but disappears in the second set of etchings which Goya did in the period of the Napoleonic invasions. The world around the artist had become so full of horror that reality was in truth stranger than fiction...
When Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague, The Stranger) wrote his essay on The Myth of Sisyphus in 1940 (now fully published in the U.S. for the first time), the agony of Western civilization and the German occupation of France seemed to make deadly plain what such Nordic philosophers as Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Jaspers had argued: that man's reason cannot give reason to man's life. In this extremity, some intellectuals got religion; others followed Jean-Paul Sartre into leftwing, atheistic existentialism. Camus, however, tries to escape both from the existentialists ("Negation is their God") and from...