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Poison in the Beer. Liveliest chapter is Editor Michalson's own attempt to answer the question: What is existentialism? The layman's suspicion that it is some kind of clandestine wedding between Nordic melancholy and Parisian pornography, he admits, comes close to truth. "For . . . there is in existentialism a shocking sensualism, an erotic realism, a tearful and throbbing meeting of skin against skin, which, so characteristically French, appreciates propinquity of heart and fingertip." At the same time existentialism contains "a sentiment of constantly living over cracking earth, or at the foot of live volcanos, or in a land...
Joseph B. Poindexter '57 of Adams House and Stepney, Conn., was elected captain of the ski team yesterday. Poindexter, the best cross-country man on the team, concentrates in the Nordic events...
...simply, something which he cannot explain, something he sees in his affinity with the Romantics, which is for most readers inoperative. Even admitting that his voracious appetite for literary experience gives words a peculiar power, and that his "humdrum, prosaic happiness" of childhood makes the image of frozen nordic mythology powerful, even then I must doubt that many have experienced this thing which is at once unhappiness, grief and joy, for which he "would not exchange all the world's pleasures...
Last week, while 2,600 spectators chewed on their sembei (rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord. But the dancing was more nearly up to Occidental snuff, with 19-year-old Masako Sunaga and 5 ft. 3 in. Naoto Seki prancing and soaring in nearly flawless technique...
When Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague, The Stranger) wrote his essay on The Myth of Sisyphus in 1940 (now fully published in the U.S. for the first time), the agony of Western civilization and the German occupation of France seemed to make deadly plain what such Nordic philosophers as Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Jaspers had argued: that man's reason cannot give reason to man's life. In this extremity, some intellectuals got religion; others followed Jean-Paul Sartre into leftwing, atheistic existentialism. Camus, however, tries to escape both from the existentialists ("Negation is their God") and from...