Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find practical uses for it. When Du Pont developed its new plastic, Surlyn, one customer cracked: "You've got the world's greatest answer. Now start looking for questions." Whenever one of its scientists does find a genie in a bottle, the company is quick to commit everything to exploit it: more scientists, plants, funds-and, importantly, more time and patience-than any other company...
...half-demented lesbian sisters (played by real-life sisters Francine and Colette Berge), employed as housemaids on a poverty-ridden farm in the Bordeaux region, are afraid that jobs and home will be sold away by their indifferent masters. Unable to sabotage the deal, they ultimately go berserk and commit two savage murders...
...would be happy.' A socialist says, 'If all were happy, all would be good.' A mystic says, 'If all were like me, happiness and goodness would not matter.' A humanist says, 'Happiness and goodness need more analysis.' An existentialist tries to commit himself to what is best of the best philosophy for the given situation...
...Write? Nevertheless (if there is a single word that sums up existentialism, it is "nevertheless"), man must commit himself to causes, must bear responsibility for his acts. Only half accepting Marx and Freud, Sartre rejected both psychology and history as predetermining man's fate; man is completely free to choose between good and evil, which is an awesome burden-particularly since Sartre is never helpful enough to define the terms. But most of his characters were usually obsessed by evil...
...Harvey Oswald lived for only one thing: to commit a deed which by its very nature would place him far above the ordinary man. He gained questionable immortality last Nov. 22, and TIME compounds the dastardly act by using his repulsive likeness on its cover...