Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that an artist hides himself behind a screen, on which he puts what others expect. We, he said, must look behind the screen to find out what the artist is really like. He quoted Jean Paul Sartre, the French existentialist, as saying that the final phase of understanding a work of art is the "discovery of the liberty of the other fellow...
...Never hesitant about suspending magazines and newspapers that go too far in criticizing his Algerian policies, De Gaulle was even tougher last week on 142 writers, teachers, film stars and journalists (ranging from Leftist Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to Academy Award-winning Actress Simone Signoret), who signed a petition urging French soldiers to desert rather than take up arms against the Algerian rebels. Le Grand Charles decreed punishment rare in any country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment...
Teacher Olson first read the sharp novel, one of the landmarks (1942) of existentialist fiction, when a woman professor gave it to him at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. A slow reader, he was impressed by the book's "contemporary relevance" and also by its short, swift sentences. In one gulp, he downed "this story of man trying to tell the truth," and it stuck with him when he went home from college last year to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There he applied for a teaching job in the hamlet of Thompson (pop. 296), which...
When Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, the Caribbean's No. 1 nihilist, recently invited France's No. 1 existentialist, Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, down for a look-see, Sartre was only too happy to go. The beretful of observations he brought back made strange reading in Paris's big (circ. 1,400,000), dead-center daily, France-Soir...
Under the influence of existentialist thought, writes Rabbi Spero in the magazine Perspective, "the criteria of a meaningful religious system are no longer the mental stability it may bring or its possibility of social acceptance, the doctrines it shares with other religions, or its sweet reasonableness. On the contrary, the very elements of Judaism which but yesterday were in ill repute-our unique chosenness, the reality of evil, the deadly seriousness and unconditional demands of the life of service to God-have today been reinstated...