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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movement has its bible, the abstruse 700-page L'Etre et le Néant (Being and Nothingness), which Philosopher Sartre published in 1943. Its literature includes Sartre's Huis Clos (ClosedDoors), a drama laid in Hell with an infanticide, Lesbian and a military deserter as its chief protagonists. The cult's foremost disciple is Authoress Simone de Beauvoir, who lives in the same hotel on the same floor as the master...
...news again. An exhibition of 31 of his portraits and seven of his nudes was packing Parisians into the swank Calorie de France. Paintings which he had once sold for the price of a few drinks were valued at 1,000,000 francs. Said an art critic of L'Ordre: "Modigliani became a legend the day of his death. Everyone was bewildered at not having encouraged, supported, foreseen his genius...
Every Sunday, Managing Editor Edwin L. James of the New York Times writes a long signed article in his paper. Last Sunday, in his mildly amiable manner, he discussed a curious phenomenon: the positive desire of millions of Americans not to be told the truth about power politics involving Russia...
Fathers long since ceased being physically necessary. Science knows ways of making ova develop without the help of a male. But up till now, mothers have been practically indispensable. Then along came two experimenters in Bar Harbor, Me. Dr. W. L. Russell and Patricia M. Douglass have bred thriving litters of mice whose mothers were never born...
...John C. L. Hulley '44, a veteran of the Army Air Corps and OSS in Italy, has been elected chairman of the Liberal Union for the next term, officers of that organization announced this week. New vice-chairman and head of the Liberal Action Committee is Harry A. Mendelsohn '48, while Timothy P. Miller '48 was chosen as secretary and C. Taibi '49, treasurer. Other officials selected were: Thomas H. Caulfield '48, chairman of the Harvard Affairs Committee; and Richard T. Gill '48, editor of the Progressive...