Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force, any more than his forbidding technique does. What generates his awesome power is the dynamic equilibrium between both sides of his creative faculty. He gives a full measure of both head and heart, and stands as an exemplar not only of fullness but, above all, of balance. Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, of all people, once wrote of Bach: "He taught how to find originality within an established discipline; actually-how to live...
...recently, "a political animal [who] could not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry." Though Orwell was a socialist, the metaphysical system underlying Marxian socialism meant nothing to him, and he had an empirical Englishman's distrust of other philosophical abstractions; to him, the existentialist Sartre was a windbag. But he also held an immense advantage over English intellectuals in politics who, by comparison, seem like dishonest children...
Camus was often misunderstood. He was labeled an existentialist, but in interviews he protested that his The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) was "directed against the so-called existentialist philosophers." He was criticized for contributing to the literature of despair, but his novels (The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall) as well as his essays and plays sought to surmount despair. He was called an atheist, but Camus was a deeply religious man without...
Negroes had always rigorously main tained a distinction between gospel and blues?the sacred and profane?despite the affinity of their sounds. But Charles boldly brought them together, blending foot-stamping orgiastic jubilation shouts with the abrasive, existentialist irony of "devil songs." He even carried over the original gospel tunes and changed the words to fit the emotion. "Lord" became "you," or "baby," and it didn't matter if the bulk of the prayerful text remained the same. Thus Clara Ward's rousing old gospel song, This Little Light of Mine, became Charles's This Little Girl of Mine...
...less than the abolition of capitalist society, they had no reasonable secondary goal to fall back to. Instead, at sit-ins in the historic Odeon Theater and the Sorbonne amphitheater, they prattled endlessly about how rotten the world is. Some professors and left-wing intellectuals joined in the discussion. Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre dropped by the Sorbonne. To Danny the Red, Sartre said: "Something has come forth from you that is astonishing and overwhelming. It denies everything that our society, as it is today, has done. It is what I will call the extension of the limits of the possible...