Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nursing a bruised ego and a gift for sketching, the 21-year-old Whistler embarked for Paris and the studio of French Painter Gustave Courbet. From Courbet he acquired his early brush strokes, his first model-mistress, Eloise, and a point of view: "Beauty is truth." This creed spurred the art-for-art's-sake movement with which an entire generation of painters and writers thwacked at the Victorian taste for the didactic, the sentimental and the morally elevating. From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury...
...major works include Childhood and Society, Young Man Luther, and two monographs, "Studies in the Interpretation of Play" and "Problems of Ego Identify...
...support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose interest. Jacques cannot be really interested, because the money she thinks her greatest charm squashes his masculine ego. He covets an impoverished cigarette girl. All the time that Kautner emphasizes this self-made chasm, however, he seems to suggest that deceptions actually are inherent to allure. Hence the comedy--thus the tragedy...
...Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N more than 20 years ago, English is his most beloved enemy, but Waterloo is not in his capricious vocabulary, and as the stars with which he decorates his name on the blackboard testify, his ego is still imperial. He attacks sense and syntax with the same insouciance that originally made him such a verbal charmer. To Hyman Kaplan, the discoverer of the laws of gravity is "Isaac Newman,'' the plural of blouse is "blice'' and the opposite of nightmare is "daymare...
...guidance people will guide our kids back to the academics, and if the counselors will counsel the administrators to put most of the nonacademic pabulum back in the extracurricular cupboard, the pursuit of happiness will take care of itself. Bruises to the ego by way of low marks, poor report cards, etc., prepare our youngsters for real-life bumps and bruises, but a "demanned" man at 30 is a tragic thing to behold...