Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornered Cobra. It was wonderful the way Bill and later on the reporters talked about Bill's fearless, shameless, icy-eyed alter ego, George Murman. Bill had been about 13 when he met George. Right away, George had tried to get Bill (who had a police record of his own) to go out prowling fire escapes in the night...
...problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal -to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live...
Driven from Germany in 1937 (Hitler felt that both his art and his theories were "degenerate"), Beckmann pursued his invisible, immutable Ego to Holland, spent the war years stalking it around the vast, onetime tobacco storeroom which is his Amsterdam studio...
...coils of a friendly python; a crowned, repulsively ugly juggler embracing a beautiful purple ball; trapeze artists necking on a safety net; an old maid caressing a toothed fish. They all hinted at a mingled horror and loveliness which might be the nature of Beckmann's still-undiscovered Ego...
...hardly knows up from down. His cardinal urges are sexual, although he doesn't begin to understand why. Pregnancy, everyone believes, is a matter of solitary female ritual, magic; the child is a fruit of moonstruck female blood. "There was not much to feed a man's ego," Novelist Fisher explains...