Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...within one paragraph of becoming better known. It is not particularly crucial to the political or other serious discussion whirling around behind the three locked doors of perception of the committee's hearings. Yet in some small way it might help. Certainly for the historian it is important to note that there is a reason for the name of the committee. It could have just as easily been the Committee for Justice. or the Committee on Freedom and Obligation. But it came...
Only five mourners, including members of the immediate family, were present at the private cremation, and there were no ceremonies. But the world took note. Prime Minister Wilson laid clumsy claim to him as "the British Voltaire." Izvestia extolled him as "most representative of the progressive spirit outside the Communist world." The World Jewish Congress called him "one of the greatest humanitarians of all time." The Queen pointed to his "distinguished contribution to 20th century thought...
What makes this trespass on self possible is the fact that a man's life today is largely defined and described by written records, many of which remain potentially available to outsiders. Schools take careful note of his intelligence and keep a detailed record of his academic achievement. His doctors have files on his health; his psychiatrist, if he has one, takes notes on his inner turmoil, his secret fears. Banks, credit-card companies and the Internal Revenue Service know almost everything about his income and financial status. Once he has ever served in the military or worked...
lonesco is eloquent in his own defense, asserting in a program note that while Camus went to the plague to give moral and even political meaning to the absurd, he himself has the diametrical aim of taking meaning away. "Death is the ultimate threat . . . but in fact even those who think they know this, know it not." The Triumph of Death is a gaudy, funny feast of cynicism and imagery. It is unforgettable, but it is oddly without consequence. At its prodding, terror, mortal terror, twitches and rolls over but will not wake...
Last Wednesday, after Yale's hockey team had been upset at Pennsylvania. 4-1, a disillusioned Dally News staffer. Alan Beller, ended his story with a note of optimism...