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Simone de Beauvoir had not seen so many stars since Jean-Paul Sartre crowned her Queen of Existentialism with the canopy of a bed one bibulous night in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946). Now her plane from Paris was over New York, whose myriad lights were so brilliant that it was as if "all the stars in the sky were rolled out over the ground." Still dazzled when the plane landed, the queen alighted, sped into the city, and, feeling estranged, could not quite believe she was there. "This city and Paris." she wrote in her diary, "were not linked...
Following in the steps of such acknowledged masters as Britain's Geoffrey Gorer and France's Jean-Paul Sartre, several still little-known but promising rookies have recently reported that U.S. children are developing prognathy ("The lower jaw is thrust forward as a result of lying for hours on the floor in front of the TV screen, chin in hand"); that, when the air conditioning breaks down anywhere, "New York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against...
...Invention of Woman. As Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's major disciple and friend, Author de Beauvoir deplores the fact that much of mankind draws spiritual nourishment from myth, religion, legend and unthinking optimism. Man, argues the existentialist, must be more than a mere passive "being." He must be an "existent," i.e., one who boldly accepts the mortality of body & soul but nonetheless resolves to pit his courage (his only weapon) against the cruel reality of life & death...
...When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his play about the cynical, power-minded Communist boss who makes a deal with the Fascists because it will serve the ultimate ends of the party, he was an antiCommunist. But when his own left-wing party fell apart, Sartre, the philosopher of the existential, was left in the position of his hero Hugo: pure but ineffectual. Apparently Sartre still yearned to be a man of action. Last week in Vienna, Philosopher Sartre was up to his elbows in the filth if not the blood of Communist politics...
This myth was no monopoly of the uneducated masses, or of those under the sway of Communist propaganda or commitment. The highest luminaries of arts and letters were responsible for some of the silliest absurdities. Jean-Paul Sartre's fabulously successful play about our South, The Respectful Prostitute, presents only more nakedly the whole creaky paraphernalia of America as seen and believed, in one degree or another, by the European intelligentsia from Kafka to Kingsley Martin...