Albert Camus:
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fully, because no not-evil choice can be tors, social workers and counselors, but duty to provide social support for unwil- made. by the woman:...
...indifference toward Christianity and the data...
...philosophy that would exalt the life of the And then they will turn to the books The careful reader of this first biog- senses and at the same time justify politi- themselves, to the monologue of La raphy will wonder what is important, cal action...
...because of their lyrical almost semititles and references, after the almost day Another paradox, so evident in his two rhetorical prose...
...But his book is "We invite a deeper look at the issue ofPa estiment on abortion...
...his close com- the natural world and deep sympathy for McCarthy's concerns...
...Ralph Abernathy, President Emeritus, hired to rewrite several chapters of a nent figures of his generation: the leading S.C.L.C...
...The permanence of certain Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $8.95, 58 pp...
...his strong friendship for the Italian best describes the poems in former is a poem which could be improved by anti-Fascist writer and critic Nicola Senator McCarthy's good-natured sec- eliminating its archaic inversions...
...My whose books (novels, plays, essays) Wes Michaelson, Sojourners Magazine Dr...
...human reality, personal or political...
...This part of Mr...
...Lottman in the task of amassing his As for Professor Noonan's draft Wallace Fowlie documentation...
...journalism is admirable...
...problem of what to include and what to McCarthy's wide reading of other con- Third, McCarthy celebrates-or discard...
...Clergy and Laity Concerned book summing up the proceedings of the...
...Lottman goes to great pains to em- accomodations toward compromise...
...dence of abortion-not, however, by figure is dimmed...
...remains elusive and ambiguous...
...with the crucial final paragraphs slanted Mr...
...Chute and to the stories in L'Exil et le what is relevant in this mass of biog- The exterior life of Camus, while he Royaume, in order to discover how Alraphical and historical data...
...Vladimii s Orthodox 1967 Harvard University-Kennedy of the rights of man, a gifted writer Seminary Foundation symposium on abortion...
...N.W., Washington, made, not by a judge or a panel of doc- rectly or indirectly with Camus, who live D.C...
...On the eviings by other scholars critically loyal to fessor Noonan, among others, for re- dence ofA Private Choice, I believe John the Christian/Catholic tradition, the re- miew...
...exponent of "absurdism," the defender Fr...
...To what degree can the pub- temporary poets, evidenced in his previ- elevates -certain natural beauties which lished writings of a. man explain and il- ous collection, Other Things and the move him: cows, lionesses, roaches, luminate his life story...
...The first lobbying and electioneering tactics Weekly, Herbert Lottman, has written an impressions of a book tend to be different would he find acceptable in their sup- unusually long biography of the French from later judgments...
...As a book, the forty-two A few poems praising man-made obwhose Paris apartment he lived for some poems reveal McCarthy's keen eye for jects seem representative of other of time (1 bis rue Vaneau...
...They should recognize as much history as it is biography, liter- nian human rights as a Christian concern...
...Tennis...
...A the trauma and the tragedy of the act, and ary and political history always related to new Christian voice speaking out on this issue could help bring peace through justice for all they should seek to minimize the inci- Camus but at times so tenuously that his the peoples of the Middle East...
...The laws should re- phasize the most appealing and the most $25-Registration, materials, meals only flect the diversity of conscientious judg- noble traits of his subject...
...In the event, my final draft of the friend and opponent, Jean-Paul Sartre...
...Hanna Nasir, President, Bir Zeit Uniimpossible commission was to play it touched the young as convincingly as versity down the middle as a good reporter only one other writer of that day did: his Alexandra U. Johnson, former U.S...
...Human Rights and the besides the liberty of abortion-to be The book appears to be a detailed and Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Responsibilities for the militaristic jingos abroad and reactionary complete account of Camus's exterior Christian Church" at home on issues of welfare and life of which the first half was spent in May 18-20, 1979 employment...
...What were his real feelings about the con- McCarthy, the celebratory troversy with Sartre over L'Homme revolte (The Rebel), of all his books the one GROUND FOG AND MIGHT Lowell," "James Dickey," and "On the that comes closest to being an intellectual Eugene J. McCarthy Death of Vernon Watkins While Playing biography...
...amendment: Before agreeing to support The literary and political history it one wishes to ask what will follow its C AMUS HIMSELF used to say, when comes largely from printed material...
...pect, that such rationality is not reasona- Herbert R. Lottman Friends of Camus, as well as personal ble, does not respect the complexity of Doubleday, $16.95, 753 pp...
...The Book of Yeats" nier...
...Jerusalem Consulate crucial final chapter on law wound up Obviously a warm admirer of Camus, Costs: $40-Registration, materials, meals...
...Foreign Service Officer...
...ple, why the rigorous argumentation employed in the abortion controversy cannot be brought to bear with respect to Camus as stranger the nuclear arms race and other issues of large consequence and lead us to equally today in Algeria, France, United States, ALBERT CAMUS firm conclusions...
...With the exception of the third affections, based on gratitude, gives us section of the Frost poem, which dethe best image of nobility in this writer's Robert Phillips velops an elaborate and unfortunate character: his devotion to two teachers in metaphor of Frost as a Model T, these are Algiers: Louis Germain and Jean Gre- 91 ELEBRATORY" IS THE WORD that successful poems...
...Many of the slight errors that have His biography does not reveal as morality of the bourgeoisie...
...In his best and 1943, does not totally explain the There is no other biography of Camus, books, La Peste and La Chute, he writes character of Meursault: his concern for although every one of the many critical a controlled but highly charged emo- the physical side of his nature and his studies provides leading biographical tional prose...
...When he has and there rediscover the features and the seems to have little connection with those been able to ascertain them, he does not spirit of Albert Camus...
...The Yeats, Frost, catalogue of books found in that hotel's the biographer is constantly facing the Clarke and 'Sitwell poems confirm Room 204...
...can't agree in principle, and I don't think titudes...
...Does it weigh with him that cr 1di- writer whose tragic death in an audates elected to defend the right to life tomobile crash occurred twenty years National Conference tend also to be restrictive of other rights ago...
...fully, because no not-evil choice can be tors, social workers and counselors, but duty to provide social support for unwilmade...
...In this book, deponent sayeth not-but second half largely in Paris where he Participants include: I have a clue...
...his own critical estimate of the book, this what kind of laws would the author of A To contradict such theory, the journalist biographer prefers to quote abundantly Private Choice favor, and what kind of and correspondent for Publishers' from the reviews of each book...
...terestedness in political matters and his the universe not being explicable, but But after the corrections of dates and constant preoccupation with justice...
...The latter poem, for In the specific case of a writer, and Clarke, Edith Sitwell, Marcel Marceau, some reason, is comprised largely of a especially a writer of Camus's eminence, and Marc Chagall...
...What were was writing his novel L' Etranger and his bert Camus created his own form of Camus's real feelings about Algeria as essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe, so meticul- humanism...
...Camera," a soliloquy by that instrument he often saw at L'Isle-sur-Sorgue in the He celebrates, first, other individuals which holds Popes and potentates at its south, and in Paris on the'rue de who, through creative acts, have made call...
...Even the hesitate to propose reasons for early criti- foremost an artist...
...by day rehearsal of encounters, voyages, early books: L'Envers et l'Endroit and Future students of Camus will use this work, seizures of serious illness, swim- Noces, opposes the beauty of the world biography as an encyclopedia for informing, soccer, amorous adventures, thea- with the sufferings of man...
...analysis the state would decide according troversy, and because of recent prompt- My final draft was submitted to Pro- to criteria set down in law...
...A dozen years ago I was gradually grew into one of the most emi- Rev...
...Today we crept into studies on Camus (some of clearly as his books the dominant remember these books not so much bewhich Camus himself allowed to persist) paradox of his life: his fundamental disin- cause of the theory they proclaim about have been corrected by Herbert Lottman...
...Lottman pro- efforts to write for the stage, on the conout despite countless obstacles, after all vide~,, for the writing of those essays, we troversy with Sartre, on the award of the that-the personality of Albert Camus can follow Camus striving to formulate a Nobel Prize, on the tragic death in 1960...
...By implication (not lished sources but largely on interviews Palestine Human Rights Campaign, quite spelled out), the decision was to be with numberless people connected di- 1322 18th St...
...The subCommonweal: 282...
...He was first and two studies of "absurdism...
...When the book appeared the clos- Noonan would support a similar policy...
...should...
...The adoption...
...I viewer is no longer certain of these cer- ing paragraphs of the draft were excised...
...and political enemies, have helped Mr...
...Don Luce...
...In the mation on the North African years, on the ter productions, writing projects carried background, which Mr...
...the- problems in North Africa became more and more acute in the '50s...
...Yeats, Robert Frost, the Irish poet Austin in Toledo, Ohio...
...Chiaromonte...
...The best is "The radeship with the poet Rene Char whom wide ranges of the human experience...
...Three of mice, a Plymouth Rock hen, trees, have been ascertained and exposed, one that volume's best were "To Robert honey, tumbleweed and fog...
...by the woman: Abortion is truly a social lingly pregnant women, but in the last Largely because of the abortion con- concern but ultimately a private choice...
...Paul Tarazi, St...
...ing, of all things, "Eaton's Corrabsable Camus occupied separate apartments in Among these poems are tributes to W. B. Bond" and the defunct Park Lane Hotel the same house...
...his admiration for Gide in ond collection...
...The reason is, I sus- Germany, Italy, Morocco, Israel...
...I cannot understand, for exam- There remained much emphasis on the such laws, if they are enacted, will work...
...If state legislatures are once questioned about his life story, that preparation of each of Camus's books is more able to pass laws expressing the the history of poor families does not carefully narrated, and rather than giving interest of society in abortion decisions, make interesting biographical reading...
...The prodigious factual Sponsors-Palestine Human Rights Campaign forbidding it but by generously support- history of this biography comes from ex- Mid-East Task Force, Chicago ing the freedom to decide in favor of the tensive research, not dependent on pub- Presbytery (For further information contact: gladness of birth...
...Even the form of his mood of the time, the war years of 1942 cal approval or disapproval...
...After all the facts Aardvark [Doubleday, 1970...
...Less successful are poems celebratChanaleilles where for a while Char and beauty and order out of life's chaos...
...20036, (202) 296.5089) 11 May 1979: 28/ Lottman's study is most useful for new wants to return to the books themselves ously documented in this biography, readers today of Camus...
...Algeria, especially in Algiers, and the Christian Life Center LaGrange, 111...
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