Word: existentialiste
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...murder's infamy usually derives from the renown of the victim or the ghastliness of the crime. But when Richard Adan, 22, a budding playwright and a waiter, was stabbed last summer by a restaurant patron, the fascination focused on the killer: Jack Henry Abbott, Marxist, existentialist, prison murderer, author (In the Belly of the Beast) and, beginning a few weeks before Adan's killing, literary celebrity (see ESSAY). On his 38th birthday last week in Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory...
...Grimaud, France. Van Velde's life before World War II was almost a prototype of the lot of the unrecognized artist: hunger, despair and an unending search for patrons. After the war, he attracted supporters who saw in his work a sense of the absurd that reflected the existentialist experience. Commented Playwright Samuel Beckett: "He confronts without restriction and complacency the anguishes of our time...
Does no one have the guts to call John Lennon what he was: a media-wise, existentialist Pied Piper who helped lead countless kids down the rocky rathole of drugs, rebellion and purposelessness...
Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher who embraced Communism and later Maoism and deeply influenced a generation of postwar intellectuals. In novels (Nausea), plays (No Exit) and tracts (Being and Nothingness), Sartre contended that God is dead and that man thus defines himself through his own actions...
...with the decisive force at their command must weigh the force of the unknown. It is entirely possible that World War II might have been still bloodier had the U.S. not been drawn into the fight by the Japanese assault. To this dilemma The Final Countdown makes a sensible, existentialist response. It is also fully aware of the ironies-the sheer comic puzzlement-implicit in a confrontation between a modern ship of the line and antiques that are a mere four decades...