Word: existentialists
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...MOON over the Mather House courtyard would delight Samuel Beckett as it dodges behind thick black clouds during this outdoor production of his existentialist tour-de-force, Waiting For Godot. By play's end, it nestles out of sight, casting an appropriate bleakness over a wet and shivering audience. The sky matches Beckett's play in its inability to illumine. The stage slipped between Mather House's cement blocks stands bare of even the smallest of miracles. No leaves flutter on the lone tree that cowers behind a tiny desert. A flute echoes as the only sign of regeneration when...
DIED. Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher and man of leftist letters; of heart disease; in Paris (see WORLD...
...trouble getting to the WCVB studios out in Needham. He finally threatened to walk, only 20 miles; it aroused the maternal instincts of a friend of his. On two hours sleep (Hercules always hated the morning) Hercules tried to frame questions. There was something in bodybuilding that touched the existentialist in Hercules, although he found it hard to express. He suspected that Arnold lived out on the edge (where else would you use all those muscles?), that Arnold too was an existentialist. It was not insignificant to Hercules that America had become a nation of joggers, that America...
...himself, made something out of nothing. People cavilled about bodybuilding, what a thing to dedicate your life to! Hercules didn't see that but he believed it didn't matter what you dedicated yourself to, it was even better if it was absurd. Hercules saw gleamings of Arnold the Existentialist...
...lots of his fans were homosexuals--it bothered Hercules, the specter of a dark room full of hungry queens had kept him from ever seeing "Pumping Iron." "I don't think it bothers Newsweek that homosexuals buy Newsweek." Arnold was, of course, being openminded, a treacherous attitude for an existentialist. Hercules respected...