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...19th century and the tyranny of the 20th, Camus declared "the evil geniuses of contemporary Europe" to be Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche. Communism was no better than Naziism, for "all executioners are of the same family." He refused religious and political absolutes. Justice, he said, "is both a concept and a warmth oi soul. Let us ensure that we adopt it in its human aspect without transforming it into the terrible abstract passion which has mutilated so many...
...your excellent review of The Phenomenon of Man by the late Father Teilhard de Chardin [Dec. 14], it is interesting that this perceptive priest has restated so clearly a number of old ideas: 1) His concept of a "thinking envelope" or"noosphere" surrounding the earth, 2) the evolution of consciousness culminating in self-awareness, 3) the apparent plurality but fundamental unity of everything in a universe held together by an inexorably harmonious binding force (love...
With this brief ceremony at Electric Boat's Wet Dock D in Groton, Conn., the U.S. last week took a giant step toward a new era of warfare and a revolutionary concept in the Navy's defense role. Hopefully by year's end, George Washington will be armed with 16 nuclear-tipped, 1,200-mile-range Polaris missiles, ready to prowl the globe as an undersea missile-launching platform. She is the first of a projected nine Polaris subs that will give the U.S. a new order of strategic capability against the Soviet Union. "Under this stout...
Concludes Editor Feifel: "Attitudes concerning [death], and its meaning for the individual, can serve as an important organizing principle in determining how he conducts himself in life . . . The concept of death represents a psychological and social fact of substantial importance . . . The dying words attributed to Goe the, 'More light,' are particularly appropriate to the subject of death...
...additions (but printing them in small notes). Today some 50 different versions exist, most of them based on either Mozart or Prout. Anxious to spread the Handel sound on stereo, record companies have brought out four new readings of the Messiah by four distinguished conductors-each with his own concept of how the work should be played...