Word: floring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pascal was indignant. In his 16 years as a waiter at the Café de Flore, in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter, Pascal had heard more crackpot talk about art, letters and life than a hundred ordinary men hear in a lifetime. For Pascal, most of it went in one ear and out the other. But he remembered that last year there was a haze of glory around the Café de Flore, when Existentialism was in its first febrile flower. Jean-Paul Sartre, the wall-eyed little founder of Existentialism, and his disciples jabbered nightly at the Flore. Admiring...
Sartre and his followers were not seen so often now at the Flore. Disappointed admirers had stopped hanging around, and the place was full of nobodies. That saddened Pascal; and he was alarmed to see Existentialism menaced by two upstart cults: Lettrism and Sensorialism...
...philosophy (1930-43). During the war he spent nine months in a German war prison, then emerged to play an active role in the Resistance (he served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most of his writing and preaching day. Simultaneously he works on a philosophic book, a play, a novel, a host of articles...
...Eased out Vice President George E. Browne, on trial in New York for extortion; picked Edward Flore, chief of the waiters and bartenders, to fill his shoes; re-elected the other twelve vice presidents...