Word: existentionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Invention of Woman. As Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's major disciple and friend, Author de Beauvoir deplores the fact that much of mankind draws spiritual nourishment from myth, religion, legend and unthinking optimism. Man, argues the existentialist, must be more than a mere passive "being." He must be...
Picnic is a good play to see. It is both well-written and well-executed. There is nothing in it, however, that will lift one out of the commonplace rut and place him in another frame of existence. Neither are there characters on the stage who would exist only in...
Road to Bali (Paramount) is the sixth in the highly successful Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Road series* and the first in Technicolor. Like its predecessors, this entry hews to the established Road musicomedy formula: plenty of gags & girls strung on a practically non-existent plot line. This time...
The presidential race cannot be separated from the startlingly close senatorial contests. Expert Hartford observers are predicting that whichever presidential candidate takes the state will carry in either Purtell or Benton with him. In 1948 Dewey took the state with but 1,000 more than Truman and Wallace combined. This...
For the rest of the half the score stood at 1 to 1, but B.U. dominated the play. The Terriers' "heading" was excellent, and they invariably beat the Crimson to the ball. But, although they outhustled Harvard, their teamwork in the opposing zone fell apart before the Crimson defense, and...