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...cried when Tom Dooley died because I'll never do anything good and hard like that." But. in the words of one of her brothers. Jean Kerr is no "beads-in-the-pocket type of Catholic." When Jean heard that the Vatican was going to blacklist Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins, legend has it that she rushed out and bought a copy to read it before the ban became official...
...manifesto, published two months ago, affirmed the right of Frenchmen to refuse to cooperate in the prosecution of the six-year-old war in Algeria. Among the signers of the manifesto were Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Francois Sagan, and Florence Malraux, daughter of author Andre Malraux, who is Minister of Culture under de Gaulie...
...articulated dissent embodied itself in a manifesto "On the Right to Refuse Service in the Algerian War," which was issued on September 1. The document signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Andre Breton, Simone Signore and 117 other French artists and intellectuals was essentially a refutation of responsibility for the excesses of the repressive French army. "French militarism, fifteen years after the destruction of Hitlerism, has restored torture," declared the signers. "What is the meaning of good citizenship," they asked, "when it is defined as shameful submission...
...Fair Players. All this sentiment got a loud echo in Manhattan last week from something called "the Fair Play for Cuba Committee," a group of 28 including Sartre, his friend Simone de Beauvoir, Novelists Norman Mailer and Truman Capote (who explained that "my stepfather is Cuban"), and British-born New Yorker Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan ("Americans tend to judge a regime on the extent to which it likes America"). In a seven-column, $4,725 ad in the New York Times, the Fair Players charged that the U.S. press is deliberately distorting the news from Cuba. Item: press reports...
...high priest and priestess of French existentialism, Authors Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) de Beauvoir, once great and good friends but now only good fellow travelers, stopped over briefly in New York City after a visit to Cuba. Simone seemed entranced: "We found a real democracy in Cuba. It is something really wonderful. Castro is a genius. He is my idol!" Had she seen any Reds lurking about? "I found no Communist influence in Cuba." Sartre tempered his enthusiasm: "I am totally in agreement with what is going on in Cuba...