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...artist peddling vegetables during the Depression, Saroyan as a proven artist holding a copy of his first book ("I was so excited I couldn't roll a Bull Durham cigarette"). ""Voyald," pontificates Saroyan to all who might be mystified by this title, "is a way of saying 'Void. Voyage and World...
Although Gibb stated that probably neither of the tendencies can fill the existing social void, he said that from their interplay a solution may evolve which interplay a solution may evolve which meets the Arabs' "psychological needs within the framework of expanding international relationships...
...page complaint to void his contract and collect damages of $142,500 plus interest, Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...
...already expended on the project. Last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department braked to a halt, wheeled about, asked the Court of Claims to dismiss the Dixon-Yates suit because-in the Department's words-the contract was from the start "unlawful, null and void, and contrary to public policy...
Existentialism, unlike traditional philosophies, does not try to think its way above or beyond man's subjective moods-it glorifies them. Fear and trembling, guilt and death, are valued by existentialists as concomitants of man's encounter with the void around him and his necessary decision to walk forward in the darkness. For existentialism, in spite of all its talk, is a philosophy of action; words by themselves do not count. "One who murmurs in his beer, 'I wish I were dead,' " writes Michalson, "would only be really existing if he were at that moment quaffing...