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...becoming the 71st recipient of the Prix Goncourt, Laine joins a distinguished list of former winners that includes Proust, Malraux and Beauvoir. He also, however, removes his name from an equally distinguished list of former losers: Colette, Cocteau, Gide, Camus and Sartre. Novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, a member of the Goncourt jury, defended its spotty record last week by pointing out that "we are judging a book by a young author who might have written only one or two earlier" -a process that is apparently as unreliable as judging a book by its cover...
...Second, I hold a much more positive view of the political life, which is hard but has many rewards. As I wrote in Private Faces/ Public Places: "Gene left our home in August of 1969 ... I do not regret that for 30 years, in the words of Simone de Beauvoir, 'I spontaneously preferred an other existence to my own.' I think I am a much richer person for having shared that existence . . . Despite the fact that the (1968 peace) campaign brought...
Scholarly papers will be presented in over 50 areas, including women in ancient Rome, labor organizing and women's consciousness, women in the third world, and a second look at Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second...
...year intimacy between French Philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre drew fire last week-from South Viet Nam. Beauvoir and Sartre, along with a group of fellow French intellectuals, appealed to the next French government to recognize the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government and further to recognize the exiled Prince Sihanouk as the rightful ruler of neighboring Cambodia...
Miffed, South Viet Nam's spokesman Bui Bao True declared, "Mr. Sartre and Miss de Beauvoir have always had a reputation of demanding the legitimization of illegal acts, crimes and bad actions...