Word: ego
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Shortly before his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. told his constant alter ego and right-hand man, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, "Ralph, whatever happens, keep the team together." Last week, his shoulders sagging and his voice an emotion-charged bass, Abernathy stood before King's tomb on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta and spoke to his fallen mentor: "I did what you asked. I tried to keep the team together. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me for resigning this day. I'll see you in the morning...
...figuring your self-esteem on little else than male-funded returns means that you are handicapped in loving yourself. You have to do it vicariously through men instead. It is a servile position and servility means degradation. Depressing your ego, your healthy selfishness, to fortify a man's takes shape as a self-hatred. It is being held in contempt and squeezing that role for every gambler's gold ounce it is worth...
ALAN SEVERANCE, whose name, through some pedantic trickery of language means "Harmony Interbreaker," is the protagonist/antagonist. He embodies Berryman's own tremendous ego and frightful delusions. Outwardly self-contained, he helps the hopeless alcoholics in his ward by dominating group therapy and confronting their inadequacies. But he rarely reaches into himself; he is blind to his own shortcomings. He is something of a Cain-figure, lost in a psychological maze of anger and nurtured rejection. Severance, a Pulitzer Prize winning scientist, art critic, and pop intellectual, feels that his status as a celebrity is the source of his troubles. Here...
...Western story and turns the tables on who's who as hero--this time it is a tough talking opium smoking prostitute (Julie Christie) who has a business sense shrewd enough to muddle the head of the small time gambler (Warren Beatty) by teasing the needs of his gullible ego. Altman has done something radical with the use of sound--the voices mingle indiscernibly to effect a new sort of realism. Brattle Theatre...
...fashioned in his rhetoric, old-fashioned in his melodrama, Cohen is old-fashioned in his ethical authority as well. He reasserts here the right of a contemporary novelist to define problems spiritually as well as psychologically, to explore the mystery of the community as well as the ego...