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...elsewhere to find some rational justification for individual life and effort. But to the Christian philosopher, the gospel according to Sartre will appear hardly more than another faddist version of Materialism. And the critical mind of France seemed still to be at work in the weekly, Les Nouvelles Littéraires which castigated it as a "fad of ugliness-Sartre's books seem to be a transcription of the mental life of ignoble and tranquilly abnormal people . . . sickening mixture of philosophic pretentiousness, equivocal dreams, physiological technicalities, morbid tastes and hesitant eroticism . . . an introspective embryo that one would take distinct...
These hard words were written, in a recent American Mercury article, by Zora Neale Hurston, B.A., Litt. D., Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellow, about some of the U.S. schools fostered by her own Negro race. The better U.S Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory reputation of such institutions, combined their fund-raising efforts two years ago under the sponsorship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college...
Died. Tess Slesinger (rhymes with messenger), 39, mordantly witty littérateur, whose early, bright promise as an author (The Unpossessed) faded when she became a well-paid cinemadapter (The Good Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...crimes committed in its own territory. Does this mean that the U.S. could wash its hands of the whole business? Many Americans would like to think so. Those who believe that the answer to the German problem is extermination of the German people-the most vocal of whom are Littérateurs Clifton Fadiman and Rex Stout-have few supporters...
Frost is noted for his traditionalism in poetry and his isolationism in politics. He, like Morison, holds M.A. and Litt. D. degrees. Dean Buck was one of the College's past winners when he was honored for his book "Road to Reunion...