Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other playwright can quite match Genet at holding the audience at bay, taut between open distaste and hypnotic fascination. Even so, Genet as artist is still much smaller in scale than Genet as existentialist hero. Much of his autobiographical writing is so sleazily scabrous that it loses even shock value. On the stage, his imagination sometimes runs to episodes so melodramatically contrived that they miss theatrical effectiveness, as when the revolutionary leader in The Balcony emasculates himself onstage...
...Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade, by Geoffrey Gorer. British Anthropologist Gorer makes De Sade seem more rake than sadist, but he makes clear why De Sade's writings were revived by existentialist thinkers...
...Among previous winners: Existentialist Philosopher Karl Jaspers, Roman Catholic Theologian Romano Guardini, Painters Marc Chagall and Oscar Kokoschka...
Independent Whim. Ulm's particular specialty has been the theater of the absurd, and absurdity-:the existentialist-born notion that only the moment matters and the moment is meaningless -reaches great heights in Ulm, so great in fact that writers like Beckett, Jean Genet (The Blacks) and Eugene lonesco (The Bald Soprano) are actually regarded as "old fuddy-duddies" by some residents. Beckett's new Play, in their view, has a plot and is therefore blighted...
...Bultmannite Biblical critics, such as William Albright of Johns Hopkins, contend that the Marburgers are too skeptical in rejecting so much of the New Testament as unhistorical. Other theologians complain that in place of the humanist Jesus produced by the old quest, the new quest is shaping an existentialist one. Karl Earth grandly dismissed the quest as an irrelevant project...