Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further development of this thought is in Why Spain?, a reply to Gabriel Marcel's stinging attack on Camus' play, Etat de Slege. Enslavement, metaphysical or historical, has only one answer--rebellion. And Camus is not "willing to keep silent about one reign of terror in order the better to combat another one". "The world I live in," he explains, "is loathsome to me. But I feel one with the men who suffer in it." Camus began, politically and philosophically, where his generation stopped: at despair. But in spite of and in a way because of despair, he continued...
...much worse and bloodier than the Castro regime has been? I believe that any such prospects were at beat slight 2) And what if the attempt failed? Did any one in Washington carefully consider this possibility? Now the United States has given Castro perfect justification for a reign of terror and removed any likelihood of detaching him from the Soviet orbit or encouraging developments away from a dictatorial regime...
...worse, ineffectual against "atheistic Communism." Now the way is wide open to the hardware crowd. They can argue that the gamble falled not because of popular support for Castro, but because we falled to send in the Marines (with the supporting argument that Castro suppressed a domestic uprising by terror. Today's New York Times already hints at this argument. There may have been a touch of the hard hand. But this looks trivial to me. Castro's economic program seems to me what saved him). Harvard and other "liberals" who have originated or played along with the Cuban policy...
...devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant by pity and terror"), or null Sagan: that timeless moment when the bored geriatric lover gets out of the bored hoyden's bed and hops up and down to get his circulation going. And like all humorists, she thrives on embellishment, taking small facts and inflating them into outrageous acts of hyperbole. When...
...French Revolution, by Georges Pernoud and Sabine Flaissier. A spirited tabloid of the Terror culled from some 50,000 eyewitness accounts. It seems that the heirs of the French Enlightenment behaved at times like...