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...other words, what is it that makes life worth living? Religion's answer to that question today is still powerful, but far more muted than it used to be. Most men take their answers from the self-evident pleasure of being alive and, even in despair, from stubborn hope and a dimly realized sense of duty to the miracle of life. Camus' own answer was that revolt against the apparent meaninglessness of existence is noble, and that to revolt is to live-suicide is submission. He did not submit; he died in an auto accident...
...will be automatically cut to 25 years in 1970 because he will have survived a final death rap for five years. He has also been told that he will "probably" be freed if he petitions Nuevo León's governor for commutation. But Simmons is an obsessively stubborn man: he refuses to make any move that might be tantamount to admitting guilt...
Cornell's Pete Larson will probably fail to improve his national rushing mark against Yale's stubborn ground defense (56 yards per game), but Bill Abel should connect with Ron Gervase or Ed Zak for a touchdown or two. That will not be enough, however, and Yale should...
Oblique Allusions. Independent and stubborn, Brigitte was soon steering her own course, combining something of the totemic power of Moore with the welding techniques of Pevsner. In 1959 she received Paris' coveted Prix Bour-delle from a jury that included Giacometti, Arp, Lipchitz and Moore, went on to represent Germany at the 1962 Venice Biennale...
Palace Revolution. Copley may not have appreciated Twigg-Smith's stubborn heritage. The Advertiser's founder, Henry M. Whitney, scion of a New England missionary family, was the kind of crusader who considered it his duty to campaign against the hula as an economic evil which distracted men from their work. Toward the turn of the century, when Hawaii's famous Castle family held a controlling stock interest, the present publisher's grandfather, Lorrin A. Thurston, was put in charge. He, too, was a campaigner, known for his fiery editorials in favor of U.S. annexation...