Word: existentialist
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...great and gloomy Dane, Soren Kierkegaard, has turned up in many strange guises. The philosophy of the once-obscure 19th century theologian has been abused to label everything from "existentialist" hairdos to literature, and his troubled probings of Man, God and Infinity have inspired a modern philosophical fad as well as the "crisis theology" of contemporary Protestantism. Last week Kierkegaard appeared in music. His musical interpreter: U.S. Composer Samuel Barber, 44, who studied Kierkegaard for a decade, and made him the subject of his first major composition in four years...
...that Adelaide Montorzi had frequented several call houses, one of them a decently furnished apartment in a respectable district of Rome. Watching two of these places, the cops identified two furtive but highly important visitors: Communist Giuseppe Sotgiu, president of the Rome provincial council, and his wife Liliana, an existentialist painter...
...faraway days when he did not like Reds, French Existentialist Author Jean-Paul Sartre ground out a middling anti-Communist tract in the form of a play called Dirty Hands. Since then, Sartre has changed camps, is now a faithful member in good standing of a Communist braintrust known as the World Peace Council. Last week Turncoat Sartre cried havoc because Dirty Hands was presented at Vienna's Volkstheater. He threatened to sue to keep the curtain from rising, but the play opened as scheduled, naturally proved to be a smash hit, was climaxed by a 30-minute ovation...
...marched into an all-male club and taken over a deep chair by the window. She cannot be thrown out because 1) she is a first-rate expounder of the teachings of one of the club's most celebrated current philosophers (and her great and good friend), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, and 2) she can talk most of the other members under the intellectual table...
...line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number (La Vie en Rose), but in reality a siren of disillusion, a kind of existentialist among chanteuses. But Patachou is almost a rural reactionary, who goes back to a sturdy, bucolic France that persists beneath the phony Parisian sparkle...