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...Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist? One who asks the great questions-"Who am I?" "Why am I here?"-and finds no answer. Can a Christian be an existentialist? He may ask the existentialist questions and suffer the existentialist agonies of doubt and darkness, but for him the answer...
...formed the group?"* The result of the exam: 55% of the 200,000 flunked. French psychologists promptly erupted: "It is detestable," said one, "to advance the age of anxiety in such a manner." Said the Paris-Presse: "They have created a competition for little monsters." Last week Education Minister René Billeres backed down, promised to give the flunked eleven-year-olds a more eleven-year-oldish exam...
Summing up for the prosecution at week's end, Attorney General René Dubois himself sounded almost like a defense counsel, made it abundantly clear where Swiss sympathies lay. "The defendants' lives," said Dubois, "have not been happy . . . They learned political hatred, went from jail to jail." Then, although under Swiss law he could have demanded 20-year sentences on the murder charge alone, Dubois asked only six years' imprisonment for Beldeanu and shorter sentences for the other three Men of the Forest...
Then came time for that oft-repeated ritual, the summoning of party leaders by French President René Coty to "consult" on the choice of a new Premier. Red Leader Jacques Duclos, the onetime pastry cook, came away murmuring creamily: "Universal suffrage, in placing the Communist Party clearly at the head of all other parties, gave us the right to demand [the premiership] for a Communist . . . The attitude of official circles seems to make this impossible for the moment. In this situation, I have proposed that the President call a Socialist...
...dinner given by Britain's Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1927, the college's president, Sir Berkeley Moynihan, took aside France's Professor René Leriche to show him a unique and little-known specimen. It was a sealed glass tube containing a piece of small intestine with a hole in it. Surgeon Leriche made an on-the-spot diagnosis: perforation caused by a tropical disease. Confided Moynihan proudly: "It is Napoleon's intestine...