Word: existentialist
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...Speaker of the House Gingrich presented his vision of an America where "a belief in the Creator is once again at the center of defining being an American" and where the "secular anti-religious view[s] of the left" based on a "core vision of a hedonistic, existentialist America" have been stamped...
...believe in universal principles. I'm an existentialist. We deal with situations as they arise," he said...
...Pauline Kael wrote in her review, the film almsot seems to play itself out in a medieval present. At first there is a temptation to mock the seriousness of the film and the self-importance of the Knight's quest, which at times appears like a remnant of 1950s existentialist philosophy; but the images in "The Seventh Seal" are so hypnotically charged that one is pulled in and held fast...
After the war, Genet was taken up by Jean-Paul Sartre and his Left Bank circle. In Saint Genet, an immense one-volume act of homage, Sartre made Genet an existentialist, the utterly free man, even to the point of insisting that his homosexuality was chosen, which Genet found ridiculous. But Sartre certified Genet to a larger readership in postwar France, which was ready, after the upheavals of war and the German Occupation, to inspect, ever so gingerly, the notions of a self-proclaimed outlaw. In a nation still divided between onetime resistance fighters and onetime collaborators, each of them...