Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stickups of banks, gas stations and Western Union offices, Bond enrolled at Brandeis last February after completing a special rehabilitation program at Massachusetts' Walpole Prison called Student Tutor Education Program (STEP). Described as being obsessed by his criminal past, Bond searched for clues to his personality in French existentialist literature and in his own writing-he had started a movie script and was planning a novel. Though he apparently had no previous political interests, Bond recently became deeply involved in the student strike center, possibly as a result of dating Kathy Power...
This view of the univesre is a precious legacy. In some respects, it is the vision of a hedon, an atheist, an existentialist, a stoic. Its consciousness is sexual as well as poetic, political as well as phenomenological. "The politics of emotion must appear/to be an intellectual structure," he says in Esthetique du Mal. Of a prototypcial dogmatist, he says
...essays are formal and abstract. They redefine polities as an endeavor to reconcile the maximum amount of personal honor with group solidarity. In a more cosmic sense, they re-evaluate citizenship and dissent in conceiving man as a striver for moaning through politics. Despite lapses into existentialist jargon. Walzer's "political journalism." belongs to the most lucid order of scholarship...
Says Dr. Leo Rangell, president of the International Psycho-Analytical Association and clinical professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A.: "It is difficult to know who is speaking in the book-May the psychoanalyst, May the theologian or May the existentialist." The comment is accurate, because May does speak in all those voices. He has also been trained in all three disciplines...
Each account in this collection of 14 previously published pieces is fused with a quiet irony, as when she observes that whatever the rhetoric of the black militants, white supremacy has yet to see its first martyr. Her criticism is no less saline. Neither the Grand Existentialist nor his angel manque can ever be the same after this Adlerian analysis: Sartre "allows Genet only the leap of accepting his destiny, of willing what is in fact the case. And to will what is the case is the essence of a staid Conservative position, so that Genet, when Sartre gets through...