Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), a French writer, first articulated what has since become the basis of the modern feminist movement. She was the author of novels, autobiographies, and non-fiction analysis dealing with women's position in a male-dominated...

Teacher, philosopher, political activist, and writer; autobiographer, essayist, journalist, novelist, and playwright; atheist, existentialist, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir is one of the best-known French writers and thinkers of the twentieth century....

Ten new hotels and six new restaurants have been added to the list of lodgings and eateries receiving AAA's highest rating, five diamonds. The additions will be listed in the automobile association's 2007 TourBook guides and on AAA.com. They bring...

At 8:30 a.m., the Crain's New York Business economic forecast breakfast takes place at the Sheraton New York. At 8:45 a.m., Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address at the Mayors & Business Leaders Plenary Breakfast at the Capital Hilton Hotel in DC. At 9:30 a.m.,...

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Three days after the MTA acknowledged it would have to scrap the iconic entrance to its Fulton Street Transit Center, Governor Spitzer spoke on the effects of rising construction costs at a New York Building Congress luncheon today at the Mandarin Oriental, warning of challenges...

[One] of the principal questions of Les Mandarins is whether or not literature is possible for the politically committed writer. (pp. 177-78) [It] was Simone de Beauvoir who discovered alienation as the specific anguish of the French writer during the years of the Algerian Revolution. As the number of massacres and tortures mounted in the mid-fifties, she was to experience for the first time the sense of being an exile in one's own land…. (p. 178)