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...here & there a brass band blared out the Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians, thrived again. Their current butt...
From wary Soong, this was a sensational admission. Chinese pessimism had given birth to a new fad: making book on the prospects of civil war between...
...bleak pessimism of late-winter France came the new fad of Dolorism. The first 5,000-copy issue of its melancholy bible, La Revue Doloriste, sold in Paris last week like gargles in wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...
...photos than his rivals, simply by splattering ink on his negatives. He also did early composites, during a macabre era in which people liked to be photographed with shadowy pictures of their deceased spouses showing in the background. He tried to make money printing photographs on satin pillowcases (a fad of the times), went $1,500 in debt with his own studio, then joined...
...individual life and effort. But to the Christian philosopher, the gospel according to Sartre will appear hardly more than another faddist version of Materialism. And the critical mind of France seemed still to be at work in the weekly, Les Nouvelles Littéraires which castigated it as a "fad of ugliness-Sartre's books seem to be a transcription of the mental life of ignoble and tranquilly abnormal people . . . sickening mixture of philosophic pretentiousness, equivocal dreams, physiological technicalities, morbid tastes and hesitant eroticism . . . an introspective embryo that one would take distinct pleasure in crushing...