Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welles's magnificent Oxon Hill estate, his valet reported that Welles had worked late that night in his study, and around midnight had told the valet to go to bed, that he was going for a short walk. That was the last any of the servants saw of their reserved, austere employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death...
...officials were as greatly concerned with "evils of poverty" breeding Communism as they were with the growing strength of Markos' armed bands. From a long-term point of view, they were right, of course. But they were and still are faced with an urgent short-term problem that must be met first. Until the rebellion is quelled there can be no effective reconstruction or economic rehabilitation...
...avid traveler whose "escapes" abroad produce delightful travelogues, a father who often yearns for solitude. He is also drinking more than he used to, as a result of his failure as a novelist, but he is raising his standard of living as a result of his popular "success." In short, he is a dead duck...
...philosophy in 1943 when he published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion. To find happiness, each man must...
Planted Ironies. The Wall, now published in an expensive limited edition, is a volume of Sartre's short stories written in 1939. His earlier writing turns out to have been an uncompromising preview of his latter-day pessimism. The characters are chiefly miserable neurotics beset by sexual frustrations, their personal despair compounded by life's (or Sartre's) carefully planted ironies...