Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mold of Jonathan Edwards or Billy Graham. In recent decades there has been a new, strong trend toward really heavy-duty thinking about the nature of God and man. Probably the deepest Protestant thought on these matters now goes on in the brain of Paul Tillich, an existentialist-minded theologian who is trying to do for Protestantism what Thomas Aquinas did for Roman Catholicism in the 13th century. For a report on the latest installment of Tillich's massive work, see RELIGION, The New Being...
...furnished with a gigantic coffee maker and a comatose young man playing the guitar, you pay 60 cents for a demitasse cup to fool with while you inhale the atmosphere of delicious imported wickedness. In an atmosphere of such exuberant freedom the most prosaic Radcliffe student can entertain titillating existentialist opinions, even though the only feeling of anxiety she may ever have is to wonder if she can pay for all the cafe au lait she has drunk, and her only feeling of dread, that provoked by the approaches of the young man sitting across from her. The Harvard community...
...tell. Are those lacerated loafers, that patched jacket, and ragged shirt collar a disdainful protests against the brandnew clothes, the slick show of affluence by the ascendant vulgar, or just magnificently down-at-heel aristocracy? Perhaps the diagnosis of a sophomore trying to look like a pre-publication existentialist is all wrong. It is hard to tell...
...Marxist and grants that in East Germany Barth's "eschatological emphasis has inspired a kind of religious resistance which has permitted the East German Christians to bear witness to their faith." But why has Barth not confessed that he was wrong about Hungary, when even "the godless Existentialist Jean Paul Sartre has broken with Communism and denounced its actions in Hungary," and "lowly party hacks in the Communist parties of Britain and France have been shocked...
...whole, the film fits into the existentialist framework, though with two or three rough edges. The heroine, played by comely Michele Morgan, is passing through a small South American town with her husband as the film opens. He is gravely ill with what develops to be meningitis. He dies horribly on a filthy newspaper-covered mattress, retching as he dies. The whole town then quarantined is threatened by the plague...