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...literary lion of Paris bounced into Manhattan last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel-partly because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Existentialism | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Died. Theodore Dreiser, 74, pachydermatous, persistent, humorless novelist; of a heart attack; in Hollywood, shortly after completing two novels, his first in over 20 years. A titan rather than a genius, Dreiser in his amoral, sardonic first novel (Sister Carrie, 1900) ended a genteel U.S. literary tradition, cleared the way for a brutal naturalism. His greatest and best-known work, An American Tragedy, a rough-hewn milestone in U.S. letters, emphasized society's responsibility for the acts of its members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Hopper won the $500 Logan Prize with Hotel Lobby (see cut), in which the pattern of electric light on the tired transients and commonplace interior creates an illusion of a moment stopped in time, turning the genteel lobby into a monument of weariness and melancholy. Born 63 years ago, tall (6 ft. 4 5/8 in.), quiet Edward Hopper started slowly, hit his stride after 40. His plain pictorial statements of what he sees are so authoritatively final that some critics regard him as a U.S. master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists' Choice | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...proceedings were conducted in an atmosphere reminiscent of a Southern female academy, vintage 1845. Super-chaperones shooed off men, warned each of the 40 contestants not to drink, smoke or chew gum. Stiffly genteel throughout, the chaperones simply ignored a man with field glasses who peered from a nearby sundeck into the solarium of the Senator Hotel when the girls assembled there (fully clothed). At one point the young ladies were inducted into a "sorority" called Mu Alpha Sigma, which was invented by the contest directors solely for Miss America entrants. Its motto: Modesty, Ambition, Success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Brains, Brains, Brains | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many moral and psychological implications. Tensions grow as the characters develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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