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...chained, humiliated, sick with fear; we are at our lowest ebb." With these words, France's existentialist philosopher and left-wing propagandist, Jean-Paul Sartre, donned the mantle of doom for his countrymen.* Describing the much-discussed crisis of conscience confronting France as a result of the Algerian war, Sartre coined a new expression, "involution" -a tragic process by which the former colonizers adopt the savagery of the native lands they once colonized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Involution | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

BREATHLESS. Director Jean-Luc Godard, a 30-year-old Frenchman, produced a striking piece of cubistic cinema -technically and experimentally the most original film of the year-that describes the last three days of sex and violence in the life of a young thug (portrayed in feral fashion by Jean-Paul Belmondo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE BEST PICTURES OF 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Very French. Big names still show up, too: Thornton Wilder, Gene Kelly, William Shirer, James Jones. Playwright Brendan Behan even turns up sober. But, a good part of the present clientele is French. Jean-Paul Sartre and his constant companion, Simone de Beauvoir, make Harry's their regular hangout. Françoise Sagan uses Harry's for her tristes, and so do a growing number of young French playwrights, film directors and actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Today, It's Politics | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...Except perhaps for the occasion when the French Revolution in 1789 turned on its own former heroes, and all over Paris the busts of Dictator Jean-Paul Marat were smashed, while his body was taken from the Pantheon and thrown into the Montmartre cesspool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Throwing Mud | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

This three-hour book was quarried by Peter Stone from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, who dug his drama out of Alexandre Dumas père. Long after chronic boredom has set in, Actor Drake is made to muse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dramarama on Drury Lane | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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