Word: existentialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre speculated on the wonderful possibilities of movies: "Sherwood Anderson once called himself a liar. That was his way of saying that he was a writer, and his lies have charmed us ever since his writings began to appear . . . But he lied with words only. What tempts today's writer for the screen is that he can lie with cinematic imagery...
...does not support her own democratic institutions?" Albert Camus (The Plague) is one of Davis' most active and effective workers. Andre Gide has lent the movement his considerable prestige, and so have the British food expert Sir John Boyd Orr (elevated this week to the peerage), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and Orchestra Conductor Sir Adrian Boult...
...cream of the novels from the Continent was unquestionably Albert Camus' The Plague, a study of human behavior in the face of death,-Readers might justly disdain the gabby slickness of The Chips Are Down, Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel; but in Camus (often regarded as one of existentialism's fellow travelers, though he denies it), they could recognize the true novelist's capacity for translating philosophy and faith into the vigorous language of human conduct...
First, there is Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre who, in The Respectful Prostitute (TIME, March 24, 1947), depicted the U.S. South on a lynching bee. He describes Americans as suffering from "an obscure malaise to which no name can be given." One of the symptoms: ". . . After dinner, [American men] leave their chairs, radios, wives, pipes and children and go to the bar across the street to get drunk alone...