Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another story, whether the "A" of adultery might not stand for admirable. Williams is full of similar moral ambivalence. His oppressive, superheated tropics are Poe's "ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir," and his characters some times seem like Poe's spectral phantoms of a locked-in ego, walking somnambulically to their dooms. Williams shares Melville's somber cosmic dread. It was of the Encantadas, the desolate islands of the Galapagos, that Melville wrote: "In no world but a fallen one could such lands exist." And it is "on the beach of the Encantadas" that Sebastian, the poet...
...unhealthy narcissism of most modern art. From the caves of Altamira to the Apollo Belvedere, pagan art looked outward and celebrated man. From the cathedral of Chartres to the music of Bach, religious art looked upward and glorified God. Modern art looks inward, contemplating the artist's ego, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Williams has often come close to drowning in introspection. But he has always been saved by his urge to reach out and touch his audience and thus achieve his own surest moment of self-transcendence...
Petty Putschist. Confronted with the immensity of Castro's mismanagement, the Communists are showing themselves less tolerant of Castro's eccentric ego...
Side of Angels. For all the book's courtroom lore and legal pyrotechnics, it also has one theme that is something of a bore: Louis Nizer. Often he seems only an ego with a law degree. He reduces cases to a contest between good guys and bad guys -with Nizer invariably on the side of the angels...
Nizer's celebration of his own triumphs (his defeats go unrecorded) has been high on the bestseller lists for weeks running. Apparently, not even a colossal ego can make courtroom drama uninteresting. Though Nizer very nearly pulls off the trick, the material triumphs over the author...