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Thus Afro-Am is condemned to a kind of bureaucratic existentialist hell. Outside scholars repeatedly turn down tenure offers, while the junior faculty contingent whirs through a quickly revolving door...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Afro-Am: Going Nowhere Fast | 2/2/1990 | See Source »

...flaws were in Hitler's overconfident detractors. The Nazi Party received strong support not only from the lower middle class but also from university students and professors. The existentialist Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party. Psychologist Carl Jung grew intoxicated with "the mighty phenomenon of National Socialism, at which the whole world gazes in astonishment." A young architect named Albert Speer found that Hitler's oratory "swept away any skepticism, any reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architect Of Evil | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

After the fourth hour of delays, I distinctly heard my father say, "I am having an existentialist crisis. Right...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Airline With an Attitude | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

EVENTUALLY the wait even got to me; I too had an existentialist crisis. I was seized with a desire to write a book called, "The Traveler," which began...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Airline With an Attitude | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

...most memorable line. The barren landscape of Godot is not recognizably our world. The fetid tramps sleep in ditches and are beaten by nameless others in the night. But their frustrated yearning to be recognized and their sense of life as perpetual diminishment should seem universal. Instead, the supreme existentialist tragedy of the 20th century has been reduced to a heartwarming revue sketch about the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Clowning Around with a Classic WAITING FOR GODOT | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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