Search results for: "existential"
A Voice Of Yesterday And Today
11 April 1940 - Page 24THE publication in an English translation of successive works of the Danish preacher and writer, SOren Kierkegaard, who died in 1855, is both a remarkable achievement and a sign of the times. There...Read more
Television
25 March 1989 - Page 40Stomach- Wendy Cope W hen P. J. Kavanagh expressed the opinion, a few weeks ago, that television critics should review the programmes that people actually watch, it reminded me that I must have...Read more
If Symptoms
1 April 1994 - Page 13persist. . . ONE EVENING last week, as I was lying in bed reading about the rise of religious persecution in the 11th and 12th centuries (I have always had diffi- culty distinguishing my Cathars...Read more
Second Opinion
12 January 2002 - Page 22IT must be a dull dog who has never wondered what it's all about — life. I mean. It is all so very difficult and complicated, and always ends in osteoarthritis. In the circumstances, it is almost...Read more
Theodore Dalrymple
13 November 2004 - Page 22What is the purpose of life? Is push-penny really as good as poetry. as Bentham contends? Surely there can have been few of us who have not sometimes wondered whether all our frantic activity —...Read more
High Life
1 March 1997 - Page 46In the sack with Sartre Taki Gstaad Mind you, for the father of existential - ism to be lousy in the sack is pretty ridiculous. As Joseph Moncure March wrote in his sexy jazz poem, The Ty, Lid...Read more
Second Opinion
12 December 1998 - Page 24LIFE is a struggle between irony and dis- gust. When I tire of one I fly to the other. I am thus in a state of constant vacillation. It is difficult even now to say which of them is a more...Read more
A Lack Of Desperation
6 October 1995 - Page 54Tony Gould DON'T CALL IT NIGHT by Amos Oz Chatto, £14.99, pp. 200 A t the end of Amos Oz's new novel there is a cast-list two pages long, which comes as a bit of a surprise, since this is neither...Read more
Television
22 May 1998 - Page 52I'm amazing - so are you! James Delingpole S o I didn't get eaten by the sharks in the end. Which was nice. Except the annoying thing is, my ordeal by great white sharks wasn't quite the...Read more
Consolations From Another Country
17 May 2003 - Page 63Salley Vickers THE STORY OF MY FATHER by Sue Miller Bloomsbury, £12.99, pp. 173, ISBN 0747565198 A nyone who has Alzheimer's in their family will be familiar with the mixture of apprehension and...Read more
Another Voice
19 December 1992 - Page 9Time to kick the craving for private happiness CHARLES MOORE Love in a palace is perhaps at last More grievous torment than a hermit's fast: h at is Keats's view, and it may well be true. But...Read more
Man Of Many Parts
18 October 1985 - Page 30Peter Jenkins BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE by Alec Guinness Humish Hamilton, £9.95 W e think of Sir Alec Guinness as the most under-actorly actor of our times. We type-cast him in our minds as a shy,...Read more
H Eathrow. Crawling Back Into The Country Like A Whipped Cur
1 January 2005 - Page 5after another disastrous American book tour. Difficult to pick the most abject humiliation. Dallas, where just one person showed up for the event? Boston, where it was twice that number, but one of...Read more
Cutting It Fine
6 December 1997 - Page 11Suddenly, it's quite normal for Britons to have it means for our souls as well as our bodies IF THE American dream has a face, it ought to be that of Mrs Jocelyn Wilden- stein. She is the wife of...Read more