Word: existentialists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flaws were in Hitler's overconfident detractors. The Nazi Party received strong support not only from the lower middle class but also from university students and professors. The existentialist Martin Heidegger joined the Nazi Party. Psychologist Carl Jung grew intoxicated with "the mighty phenomenon of National Socialism, at which the whole world gazes in astonishment." A young architect named Albert Speer found that Hitler's oratory "swept away any skepticism, any reservations...
After the fourth hour of delays, I distinctly heard my father say, "I am having an existentialist crisis. Right...
EVENTUALLY the wait even got to me; I too had an existentialist crisis. I was seized with a desire to write a book called, "The Traveler," which began...
...most memorable line. The barren landscape of Godot is not recognizably our world. The fetid tramps sleep in ditches and are beaten by nameless others in the night. But their frustrated yearning to be recognized and their sense of life as perpetual diminishment should seem universal. Instead, the supreme existentialist tragedy of the 20th century has been reduced to a heartwarming revue sketch about the homeless...
...that there has been only one Marcello to play. In his first eminence, as the cynical journalist in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and the indecisive director in Fellini's 8 1/2, Mastroianni might have been typed as an existentialist heartthrob, a Valentino for the atomic age. But by the early '60s he was also playing a comic-pathetic roue in Divorce, Italian Style; a quiet-spoken syndicalist in The Organizer; a trio of Italian males in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. From these disparate parts emerged the full image of Mastroianni: a sensual, reasonable man, agreeably passive, remarkably resilient...