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- (1980) Died:Jean-Paul Sartre
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1980 Highlights
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES
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- <body>
- <p> Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher who
- embraced Communism and later Maoism and deeply influenced a
- generation of postwar intellectuals. In novels (Nausea), plays
- (No Exit) and tracts (Being and Nothingness), Sartre contended
- that God is dead and that man thus defines himself through his
- own actions. </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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