Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most works with any real distinction possessed foreign blood. The season's most creative new play was British Writer Enid Bagnold's witty, elegantly savage The Chalk Garden. Even more finely tempered was Tiger at the Gates, Jean Giraudoux's humanely ironic lament for the Trojan and all subsequent wars. Audiences might argue whether Samuel Beckett's puzzling, plotless Waiting for Godot was profound art or a mere philosophic quiz show; less arguable was the neatness of its writing, the desolation of its mood. In Lillian Hellman's sharp adaptation, Jean Anouilh...
...readers: a carpenter's file, a 6-in. rubber dagger, a cut-out of Marilyn Monroe, a lottery ticket on a 1936 Ford, a deflated balloon, a ticket to the fireman's ball, a note reading, "Roises are red/ Vilets are blue/ And I HATE YOU, Jean...
Like many of her sisters in what she bitterly refers to as the Second Sex, France's Simone de Beauvoir would rather talk than eat. Since she is the grande dame of French existentialism and all-round good friend of Jean-Paul Sartre who founded it, it goes without saying that there is a minimum of natter in her chatter. She can be wrongheaded, she can make ridiculous statements (America Day by Day; TIME, Dec. 14, 1953), but even her nonsense is the product of one of the sharpest and best-stocked minds in letters...
Punch Out a Meaning. At 48, Simone de Beauvoir is a handsome woman. She has never married, and her years-long liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has brought to birth only a bleak philosophy which says that it is up to each man or woman to punch out a meaning to life in a meaningless world that none ever sought. A not uncommon game among Paris intellectuals consists in trying to answer the question: How did Simone get that way? Her Parisian parents were Roman Catholics, her father a bookish lawyer, her mother a reserved middle-class lady. Simone...
Simone went on to the Sorbonne, where she finished secondbest, in competition for a top graduate degree (1929), to a student named Jean-Paul Sartre. From that time on, the two have seldom been long separated...