Word: engagement
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...born with the gift of laughter," Sabatini announces in the novel's opening sentence, "and a sense that the world was mad." Scaramouche, in fact, is the type of the homme engagé, the modern intellectual activist. All his acts are the free acts of a man who dances his existence upon the abyss of nothingness. Today the notion that only the crazy are sane in a world gone mad would hardly rattle an espresso cup. It was not so in Sabatini's time. By a singular stroke of intuition, he created an existentialist hero almost a decade...
...archetypal homme engagé, the intellectual man of action, Malraux is not yet fully ready to climb down from the barricades. Last month he announced that he was prepared to fight for Bangla Desh, the East Bengali independence movement spawned by the Pakistani civil...
...cafes debate the struggles between idealism and revolution, Malraux lived them. He has helped organize Communist strikes in China, fought the Fascists in Spain, listened while assassinations were hatched for "political" good, argued with conspirators, joked with hunted men. He is that ideal of French intellectualism, I'homme engagé, the man of thought who is a man of action, living his ideas...