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...valid proof of either. What does he expect, an angel with a flaming sword? . . . Camus, and the coterie of which he is a dominant figure, are guilty of childishness. To assume that life has no meaning because it is not immediately and inescapably apparent is ridiculous. To erect a concept of life on a basis of futility is hopeless; man cannot predicate purposive action and deny the existence of purpose . . . Camus is caught in a monstrous contradiction. Ultimate concepts are contingent on faith. This is true not only of religion and philosophy but of science...
...with considerable disgust that I read of the Ford Motor Co. permitting its pressagents to promulgate the concept of limiting the sale of the new Continental car to humans with pedigrees [Oct. 10]. The whole thing is un-American-for shame...
...concept of man as a thinker has become outmoded in American technological society, Andre Siegfried, Bacon Exchange Professor and Member of the French Academy, said yesterday...
...with results that speak well for Turkey. Stoutly anti-Communist well before the Western countries awoke to the extent of the U.S.S.R. menace, Turkey plunged resolutely into beefing up its army, sent a valiant 4,500-man brigade and replacements to Korea, accepted and promoted John Foster Dulles' concept of the "Northern Tier" alliance (see above). Last April Zorlu himself skillfully carried the West's position into the Bandung conference...
Thrusting & Drawing. Despite the "chosen people" concept, he points out, Judaism has never had the idea that outside it there is no salvation-the idea that has enabled so many Christians to look upon missions as a kind of rescue work. Judaism recognizes all righteous men as sharing in the world to come; non-Jews need only obey the "Seven Laws of Noah"-the covenant God made with all mankind-instead of the 365 negative and 248 positive injunctions of the Jewish...