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...WOMAN DESTROYED by Simone de Beauvoir. 254 pages. Putnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Postponement of Defeat | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Simone de Beauvoir, it seems maddeningly unfair that a sufferer from the degenerative disease, life, should in addition be tormented by the petty affliction of being female. In three new novellas she returns to the theme as to a sore tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Postponement of Defeat | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...much easier for M. De Montherlant to think himself a hero when he faced women (and women chosen for his purpose) than when he was obliged to act the man among men-something many women have done better than he, for that matter. -De Beauvoir, The Second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal by Hippogriff | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

These are harsh words. But Mile, de Beauvoir's view of The Girls and its author is mild compared with the portrait of womankind sketched by Henry de Montherlant in these four novels published separately in Paris between 1936 and 1939 and now issued in America for the first time in a single volume. An accomplished playwright, novelist and gadfly, Montherlant at one time or another has irritated nearly everyone in France. Misogyny, though, is the specialité de la maison-like fetuccine Alfredo served with a silver spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ordeal by Hippogriff | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Critics of the "war crimes tribunal" receive short shift from Schoenman. "We never represented it as a trial," he says, and compares the procedure to a "grand jury" for examining evidence without the "adversary process." He admits that the judges--including Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Vladmir Dedijer--were already convinced that the U.S. had committed war crimes in Vietnam. "We're all conditioned...the question is how the evidence is dealt with," he says flatly. The tribunal felt that the Viet Cong had not committed war crimes. "Their resistance is a heroic chapter...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Ralph Schoenman | 3/19/1968 | See Source »

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