Word: outcast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jean-Paul Sartre is afraid of compromising himself. In the light of fame it is becoming difficult for him to play the part of the troubled existentialist--the outcast the poor little French orphan with no place to go, nothing to do, and nothing to say. Ever since the first publication of La Nausee (1938) Sartre has subjected himself to a rigorous and naked self-examination and society to a penetrating cross-examination. He values nothing but life itself which at best seems to be nothing more than the meaningless least common denominator of the world around him. What meaning...
...only painter who might be much at home in any Western city's modern museum is Oskar Rabin, an outcast painter who enjoys no official patronage at home. Rabin's four fantasy cityscapes are semiabstractions: a City and Moons balances glowing oval shapes against the dark grid of hazy architectural forms; an American Landscape shows giddy skyscrapers in a land he has never visited. Visions of London and Paris both depict painfully precise, oversized postage stamps (one with Queen Elizabeth) that boldly refute the perspective...
...BLOOD KNOT. Two half brothers, one light and one dark, act out in miniature the torment of being a racial outcast in present-day South Africa. Playwright Atholl Fugard writes with a tenderness, poignance and understanding that crosses all color lines...
...BLOOD KNOT. Two halfbrothers, one light and one dark, act out in miniature the torment of being a racial outcast in present-day South Africa. Playwright Atholl Fugard writes with a tenderness, poignance and understanding that crosses all color lines...
...Outcasts Together. In the wake of De Gaulle's words, there were many doubts, many hesitations. For Red China, there was the uncertainty whether it was using France or being used by De Gaulle. For Russia, there was the uneasy knowledge that the nuclear outcast of the Orient had now joined hands with the nuclear outcast of the West...