Word: floring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Sartre came back from a German prison camp in 1941, they settled down in an unheated Left Bank Paris hotel, made the heated Café de Flore and the Deux Magots their workrooms, talked and wrote and wrote and talked until French existentialism was born. With limited assists from Philosophers Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir decided that life had no purpose, no meaning except what each man could find for himself in his own existence. To the young, hungry intellectuals of a shamed and broken country, existentialism seemed a revelation. Overnight Sartre became its high priest, Simone...
...Office. Burgess took to journalism, joined the BBC, transferred to a propaganda section of the War Office with the outbreak of World War II. Maclean was already carving out a brilliant career in the Paris embassy and spending his spare moments at Left Bank spots. At the Café Flore he met a pretty American girl named Melinda Marling, who amused him by smoking cigars. They were married just before the fall of France, and went on together to London, and four years later to Washington...
...guru. In the sidewalk cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, crew-cut young French students hotly dispute the exact degree of "despair" advocated by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre or his former disciple Albert Camus. Sometimes the great men themselves appear at the Café de Flore or the Deux Magots. When they do not, their movements, habits, tastes and idiosyncrasies are reported as if they were movie stars. By others, who call them "the mandarins." the French intellectuals may often be disregarded; but they are never ignored...
...gunnery at Fontainebleau. France. In Paris in the '20s, he became friendly with Pridi Phanomyong, a Siamese political-science student who lived in the same pension; the two were destined to become political Siamese twins for the next 30 years. At the tables of the Café de Flore and the Deux Magots on the Left Bank, Phibun, Pridi and fellow expatriates plotted a revolution at home. Their schemes worked out successfully in the revolution of 1932, when King Prajad-hipok signed Siam's first constitution, which Pridi wrote...
...existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate step to solid respectability. The dignified Collège de France elected Existentialist Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty-an old school friend of Sartre's-to its coveted chair of philosophy...