Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authenticity. Both of these words, unfortunately, have drifted into verbal impotence of late. As Trilling admists, "sincerity" these days is at best found at the end of letters which are quite the opposite of sincere. And authenticity has been relegated to antique shops and little-read long-winded existentialist treatises. Trilling sets about to revitalize these words by probing their original etymologies and the host of associations that once clustered intact around each concept...
This stylish thriller is yet another stop on the Greene-Ambler-Deighton-LeCarre circuit. In his first novel, Dublin-born Joseph Hone follows the impeccable existentialist formula in which the spy is the victim, doomed to suffer betrayals and failures as remote as the stars from his control...
...references appear throughout his films and sketches. In a piece called Mr. Big, Allen, a hard-cooked private I, is on the lookout for the Supreme Being. "Somebody with that description just showed up at the morgue," the cops tell him. "It's the work of an existentialist." How can you tell? he argues. "Haphazard way how it was done. Doesn't seem to be any system followed. Impulse...
There are flaws in the film: vignettes featuring Lou Jacobi as a past-throttled immigrant judge, Donald Sutherland as the pastor of the First Existentialist Church, and Alan Arkin as a neurotic police chief are all ill-timed. The first is prolonged to an ineffectively surreal note, the second (by far the funniest) turns into roundhouse farce, the last starts and ends hysterically...
...stickups of banks, gas stations and Western Union offices, Bond enrolled at Brandeis last February after completing a special rehabilitation program at Massachusetts' Walpole Prison called Student Tutor Education Program (STEP). Described as being obsessed by his criminal past, Bond searched for clues to his personality in French existentialist literature and in his own writing-he had started a movie script and was planning a novel. Though he apparently had no previous political interests, Bond recently became deeply involved in the student strike center, possibly as a result of dating Kathy Power...