Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his eminence among theologians, Rahner remains virtually unknown among laymen. He has never written a book summing up his theology-his insights are scattered among 700 books, articles and essays, and they are hard reading. As a young man he studied under German Existentialist Martin Heidegger, and the influence of that baffling philosopher is apparent in both Rahner's thinking and his labyrinthine style. "When I am an old man and have the time," jokes his brother Hugo (himself a noted theologian), "I want to translate Karl's writings -into German...
This ham-and-existentialist Zenwich put together by a young American absurdist named Jack Gelber and first served in an off-Broadway theater, was eagerly gobbed up by sensation-hungry hundreds of let's -go-down-to-the-Villagers. But what was fundamentally wrong with the play remains fundamentally wrong in the film it is not life, it is not art, it is not interesting. Philosophically, it is an uninspired restatement of Waiting for Godot; esthetically, it is just a drop in the Beckett...
...existentialist, when talking about "engagement" or the distance between me and me," uses words which "correspond to our experience of the world," Moore said. Linguistic philosophers, on the other hand, have denied that existential terminology accurately describes man's experience in the world...
Moore showed a Peanuts cartoon depicting an icicle about to fall on Snoopy's doghouse; "I'm too ME too die," Snoopy wails, illustrating the existentialist's positive commitment. Turning to the poetry of the beat generation, Moore quoted Ferlinghetti to illistrate an exaggerated interpretation of the existentialist emphasis on activity. The poem described a young virgin wearing only a bird's nest in "a very existential place...
Foxes & Blocks. The contributions, whether Catholic, existentialist or Communist, amount to one long indictment of tyranny. There are searing reminiscences of the Nazi occupation. The Communists are criticized less directly than the Nazis -by inference and allegory-but just as forcefully. In The Gold Fox, by Catholic Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, a small boy imagines a gold-colored fox in his bedroom that makes him happier than the dreary, jaded human beings around...