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...most standards, Simone Weil was an absurd and unattractive woman. Almost constantly ailing, painfully humorless and so intense she was either irritating or ridiculous, she agonized through a short life of 34 years and died in 1943 in a gesture that seemed to typify her gift for futile heroics. She virtually starved herself to death in England by refusing, though she was weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime ration for her native France...
...among French intellectuals-because she had never seemed to belong anywhere. As a Jew she denounced everything Jewish; as a Christian she shrank from joining a church; as a political worker she had no faith in politics; as a revolutionary fighter she deplored reliance on force. Yet today Simone Weil is looked upon by an increasing audience as one of the outstanding religious figures of her time.* In the current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, is a penetrating study of the "Saint of the Absurd" by Leslie A. Fiedler, associate professor of humanities at the University of Montana...
French, Arthur Eugene, Jr., Harrington, William Locke, Hatton, Harry Leonard, Johnson, Berkeley Daniels, Jr., Myers, Richard Lee, Schimberg, Lee, Trinchieri, Paul Reeder, Ufford, Charles Wilbur, Jr. (Captain), Watts, David, Weil, Frank Alan (Manager...
Manager for the Yale match will be Frank Weil, selected yesterday as freshman manager for next year...
...Weil, Research Associate in Sanitary Engineering, found his wife dead in the front seat of their car early Saturday morning. According to Medical Examiner Leo T. Myles, circumstances surrounding the death indicated suicide...