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First, there is Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre who, in The Respectful Prostitute (TIME, March 24, 1947), depicted the U.S. South on a lynching bee. He describes Americans as suffering from "an obscure malaise to which no name can be given." One of the symptoms: ". . . After dinner, [American men] leave their chairs, radios, wives, pipes and children and go to the bar across the street to get drunk alone...
...past week Jean-Paul Barricelli '45 2G (center) has been devoting his evenings to teaching John Peters '45 (left) and Robert Fletcher '45 (right) the manly art of self-defense with broadsword and shield...
...Frenchmen, Charles Boyer and Jean-Paul Sartre, whose particular dramatic talents this reviewer has previously regarded with skepticism, have not only redeemed themselves in "Red Gloves," but have brought to Boston the best new drama since Mr. Williams' "Streetear" of last year. "Red Gloves" is a generally well-written and always engrossing play that for the first time shows Mr. Boyer to be an actor of considerable abilities...
...Jean-Paul Sartre, France's high priest of existentialism, who suffered a left uppercut by Pravda last year, got it on the other cheek: the Vatican put all his books on the Index (Librorum Prohibit orum...
...resent the satires on British mores of such writers as Max Beerbohm, "Saki," and Evelyn Waugh, but he will concede humor to the contrariness of inanimate objects-such as the collar-button under the bureau-preferably someone else's collar-button. He dislikes gloomy foreign philosophies such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism, and he likes to see them made fun of, in his fashion. Recently he has been getting what he wants in some spirited exercises in the Spectator's colums...