Word: nihilisme
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The qualified No is that the war has polarized us and precluded a bipartisan consensus developing with regard to policies that all future Administrations must grapple with in protecting us.The threat is real and it's all the more lethal because, paradoxically or not, it's driven by religion and...
Frayn is not so pretentious as to offer answers, but he strongly hints at a disaffected liberal's belief in the strength of the darker side of human nature. Benefactors is foremost a comedy, albeit a disillusioned one, and it makes its statements with jokes. In the shrewdest of them...
HOSPITALIZED. Françoise Sagan, 50, French novelist and playwright whose shocking first novel about youthful nihilism and passionless hedonism, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), published when she was 18, became an international best seller; in Paris. While on a visit to 8,500-ft.-high Bogotá, Colombia, she collapsed with pulmonary edema...
By getting into Marv’s mind readers discover that, behind his tough façade is a sad, mentally unstable man hoping he can live the right way as he tracks down the girl’s killers—from a silent cannibal to a Kennedyesque Cardinal?...
This nihilism was coupled with a theatrical brightness indicative of a world that did not quite reflect the one that we live in, but rather a hyper-universe that was at once absurd and far-fetched.