Word: existentialist
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...roll sometimes sounds like a musical accompaniment to Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée. While U.S. rockers chant wide-eyed changes on adolescent love, requited and otherwise, their French counterparts in the cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés are inclined to peer through their existentialist glasses darkly. The most successful of the Parisian rock 'n' rollers is a 31-year-old self-styled gypsy who goes by the name of Mac-Kac (real name: René Reilles). A jazz drummer, Mac took to rocking after the U.S. film called Rock Around the Clock...
Emile Kahn, president of the League of the Rights of Man, urged the court to remember "that most noble French tradition which does not punish a political crime with capital punishment." Author Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist and sometime Communist sympathizer, turned up garbed in a grey overcoat and moccasins, argued that "one has to distinguish between political crime and terrorism. Terrorism, practiced to inspire fear, despises human life. The political killer demonstrates his respect for human life when he seeks, by killing, to avoid vast slaughter. Remember Charlotte Corday [who stabbed Marat in his bath]. All the French are proud...
...enough to lift the listener from his chair. Centuries of reading aloud have not yet dimmed the Elizabethan magnificence of the great King James Bible passages, and James Mason brings sonority and good sense to his declamation of Ecclesiastes (Caedmon), making the nameless narrator sound as contemporary as an existentialist in Paris, as ancient as a Pharisee. The sound track of the movie Oedipus Rex (Caedmon, 2 LPs), starring Douglas Campbell and Canada's Shakespearean Festival Players, transports listeners inside the towering walls of seven-gated Thebes for the bloody working out of man's greatest tragedy. Caedmon...
...current issue of Lampy provides the Bow Street answer to libidinous impulses--an existentialist sense of humor. Themes in "The Battle of Hastings Memorial Issue" range from assassination and divorce to nightmare and heart attack...
William Golding, English novelist, writes like a French existentialist who has wandered into the Manhattan offices of True magazine. The French practitioners of the art of "the extreme situation" lean to plagues (Albert Camus) or politics and perversion (Jean-Paul Sartre). A Cornishman and sometime naval officer. Author Golding of course sends his existential hero to sea. Aboard a British destroyer in mid-Atlantic, Christopher Martin had just given the order "Hard a-starboard'' ("the right bloody order," too, he later reflects) when a torpedo blew him clear off the bridge. He survives only to be engaged...