Word: beauvoirs
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...confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth at Aqueduct. No, I think it is better just to write...
...Simone Beauvoir, noted French novelist and playwright and a leader in the Existentialist Movement, will lecture in French on "La Responsibilite de l'Ecrivain" this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Modern Language Center. Mme. Beauvoir's talk will be open to the public, and is presented under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages...
...Being and Nothingness), which Philosopher Sartre published in 1943. Its literature includes Sartre's Huis Clos (ClosedDoors), a drama laid in Hell with an infanticide, Lesbian and a military deserter as its chief protagonists. The cult's foremost disciple is Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who lives in the same hotel on the same floor as the master...
...Sartre, De Beauvoir has rhapsodized...
Sartre's temperament is Gallicly gay. Once at a bibulous party the irrepressible prophet began boxing a dressmaker's dummy. Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir. Suddenly Sartre landed a haymaker. The dummy hit the bed, shook loose the canopy on De Beauvoir's brunette head. Wags said that Sartre had crowned her Queen of Existentialism...