Word: existentialist
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Rita Hayworth dropped in on the sunny south of France after a little Paris shopping. Ready for any emergency, she had bought, among other items: 17 evening dresses, 20 bottles of perfume, a case of champagne, a monkey, a collected works of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre...
Rita Hay worth dropped in on the sunny south of France after a little Paris shopping. Ready for any emergency, she had bought, among other items: 17 evening dresses, 20 bottles of perfume, a case of champagne, a monkey, the collected works of Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre...
...than the name of a jittery Paris fad; it is a description of any philosophy that takes as its starting point the elementary fact of human existence. The word, and the Catholic Church's wish to assist Thomism's prior claim to it, had brought 13th Century Existentialist Aquinas and 20th Century Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre together. The whole room rustled when white-maned Philosopher Jacques Maritain stood up to speak...
...Saint Thomas was an existentialist in a genuine sense, though very different from today's existentialists. ... [He] gave prudence and will their important and proper place. Modern existentialists have tried to reach conclusions without prudence and without will. They have ignored the spirituality behind the sublime cry of Job; they have remembered only the dung heap whereon Job lay. If we will see true existentialism, we must look for it in Saint Thomas...
...Simone Beauvoir, noted French novelist and playwright and a leader in the Existentialist Movement, will lecture in French on "La Responsibilite de l'Ecrivain" this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Modern Language Center. Mme. Beauvoir's talk will be open to the public, and is presented under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages...