Word: existentialist
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...Exit deals in despair--the existentialist brand of despair which employs an infanticide, a lesbian, and a coward as its protagonists; a despair which isn't any more tragic than it is didactic, and yet is great art. The dilemma of the common death sentence, hackneyed at the hands of philosophy professors, is moving as the instrument of good acting and directing...
...Exit, an existentialist drama, "is a highly emotional play," according to Director Robert Hesse '59, "and thus we feel that our intimate arena staging will bring about the contact between audience and the drama which this play requires...
...pragmatist," tells Patient Horner: "It would not be well in your case to believe in God. Religion will only make you despondent. But until we work out something for you it will be useful to subscribe to some philosophy. Why don't you read Sartre and become an existentialist? . . . Study the World Almanac: it is to be your breviary for a while...
President Eliot's cautious humanism was not so unrealistic, says Bartley, as the "latterday optimism" of President Pusey, which expects help "from only one kind of contemporary thinker: the flashy existentialist or teutonic theologian who ministers to the 'Big Questions' with big answers and bigger 'systems.' " Harvard is in a worse way, says Bartley, since "it has become forward to look backward and to call perverse those dry and analytical philosophers who deflate the wind bags of our time instead of blowing up more themselves...
...artist's ancient agonizer: whether to save the world by his exertions or by his example. Half, led by Osborne, Movieman Lindsay Anderson, 35, and Drama Critic Ken Tynan, 31, said artists must "take an interest in social environment-and that means politics." The rest, spearheaded by Existentialist Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, insisted that politics is for common people, that salvation must first be found by searching the soul...