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...MORTAL (345 pp.)-Simone de Beauvoir-World...
...rational washout. In the end, Fosca can't imagine why generation after generation of men and women grow up bursting with ambition to change the world and right its wrongs. Fosca thinks he knows that "nothing can be done for man." But the retort he gets from mortal men throughout seven centuries is always much the same, e.g., "I've got to feel that I'm alive-even if I have to die trying," and, "There is... one good: to act according to one's conscience...
Life Is Death. Mortal man's proud answers to Fosca are put in his mouth by France's Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir is merely the medium. All good existentialists believe that when they die, they will die altogether: but they argue that precisely because man has no God to look after him, no Heaven to look forward to and no way of escaping death, he is so much the greater, because his hope and courage light the absurd void to which he is condemned. Mortal man, in fact, is forever alive, whereas immortal Count Fosca...
...Kraft TV Theater offered the week's best dramatic fun by dusting off an old Italian chestnut, Alberto Casella's Death Takes a Holiday, which was first seen on Broadway in 1929. Actor Joseph Wiseman played the Grim Reaper taking a three-day fling at mortal follies, and was ably seconded by Stiano Braggiotti as the tortured duke and Lelia Barry as the girl who falls in love with Death. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, veteran Pat O'Brien had an actor's field day in The Chase...
...loves another. And haunting him every moment is the sense that two women now, not just one, hold him to blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals Scobie's fate. He takes Communion, while in mortal sin, in order to hide that mortal sin from his wife. With the despair of the damned, he determines to commit suicide. "God, condemn me!" he cries. "But give rest unto them!" The ironies that ricocheted so savagely through Greene's final pages are all forsaken in the film...