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...SECOND SEX (732 pp.)-Simone de Beauvoir-Knopf...
Were Sophocles to croon this chorus (from Antigone*) below the boudoir of Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, she would very likely fling wide her French window and bomb him with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...
Many authors of both sexes have bent their pens to the exploration of this subject, but none has bent so nearly double as Author de Beauvoir, or painted the plight of woman on so large a canvas. She begins her book, in time, with a discussion of Eve in the Garden of Eden and carries right on from there through recorded history to the age of Dr. Kinsey. By the time she has finished her biological, psychoanalytical and historical-materialist dissection of the situation of her sex, the warm aura of mystery that commonly surrounds woman has been reduced...
Died. Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Tillman Hooks, 78, adopted (when she was five) daughter of Jefferson Davis, President (1861-65) of the Confederate States of America; in New Orleans. Mrs. Hooks came to live at Beauvoir, the Davis Gulf Coast home, while her foster father was writing The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, later married Henry Hooks, a Texas railroad agent...
From the beginning, the Paris public has been enthusiastic. When tickets went on sale in March, 700 music lovers queued up the first day. Some well-known intellectuals held conspicuously aloof. Existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir ("We are not that anti-Communist") turned down bids to speak. But plenty of other certified intellectuals accepted, e.g., Britain's Stephen Spender, France's André Malraux, Italy's Ignazio Silone...