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René Sébille is one of those unusual men who can scratch his right ear with the middle ringer left hand held behind his back (see cut). In general, his life has been unusual. He has been an errand boy, a bellhop, an elevator operator, a metal worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Anti-Existentialist. Like many other Frenchmen, Sébille was "profoundly disturbed" by the moral decay and physical degeneration of French youth. The present was empty and the future bleak. This state of mind was played upon by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Sébille, who is a jolly fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

A mixture of Emersonian transcendentalism, Indian mysticism and garden-variety lust, intimatism is concerned with the harmony of the individual. It holds that man alone cannot find harmony; he requires woman. Says Sébille: the only way for men & women to understand themselves better is "to love each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Sébille, a confirmed jitterbug, has written an intimatist novel, La Commandante, which sold 10,000 copies in less than three weeks, and an intimatist poem called The Bikini Yodel :

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Says Sébille: "This poem isn't as stupid as it sounds."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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