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...diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form of psychotherapy for a selfconscious, shame-ridden society...
...orchestra pit littered, in the words of one critic, with "the murdered bodies of the instruments." Set in China in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, the opera told of a wife who betrays her husband to the enemy, is tried by the village council and dismissed with the existentialist in junction: "We neither condemn nor absolve you. You alone can decide whether you were right or wrong, and your soul throughout eternity will be your judge...
...said that an artist hides himself behind a screen, on which he puts what others expect. We, he said, must look behind the screen to find out what the artist is really like. He quoted Jean Paul Sartre, the French existentialist, as saying that the final phase of understanding a work of art is the "discovery of the liberty of the other fellow...
...Never hesitant about suspending magazines and newspapers that go too far in criticizing his Algerian policies, De Gaulle was even tougher last week on 142 writers, teachers, film stars and journalists (ranging from Leftist Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre to Academy Award-winning Actress Simone Signoret), who signed a petition urging French soldiers to desert rather than take up arms against the Algerian rebels. Le Grand Charles decreed punishment rare in any country calling itself a democracy. Government employees who signed or support the petition, such as teachers, face suspension at one-third pay; actors and directors were forbidden employment...
Teacher Olson first read the sharp novel, one of the landmarks (1942) of existentialist fiction, when a woman professor gave it to him at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. A slow reader, he was impressed by the book's "contemporary relevance" and also by its short, swift sentences. In one gulp, he downed "this story of man trying to tell the truth," and it stuck with him when he went home from college last year to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There he applied for a teaching job in the hamlet of Thompson (pop. 296), which...