Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...besieged romanticism. Yet Scorpio could not avoid the conclusion that there was a touch of the put-on and package-deal about the whole enterprise of covering the moon shoot. The flimsy mask of Aquarius itself seemed to have less to do with its wearer's famous ego than with the self-kidding that well-established products sometimes employ in their advertisements. There was, after all, a fortune involved. The gross from the serialization in LIFE, the book version and all world-wide rights would be more than $1 million. Aquarius had long since shed the intellectual...
...comparison is the easiest form of criticism, then the reader can get a sense of Love and Fame by comparing it to Catullus. Berryman is much like Catullus, a poet with a gloating ego, harping on his sexual prowess and his reputation, dropping names and places, an impudent golden boy. Berryman catalogues his life in this book, and every day of it is made larger than life...
...friend: "John knows the economy can't get much worse. He has nowhere to go but up. If the situation improves, he can get the lion's share of the credit. It is a situation that appeals both to his political instincts and to his rather roomy ego...
...result of all that labor proves that Beethoven did not just "free music"-as his romantic biographers put it-but the creative ego and id of every composer who followed. Prior to Beethoven, music in general never moved too far from the everyday interests of its patrons, be they commoners or royalty; this was true of a Bach cantata or a Mozart serenade. Beethoven changed that. As the father of musical romanticism, he made music an expressive function of himself. Later composers carried the cult of music for music's sake too far, and divorced "serious" composition from...
...then, self-contradiction is Cioran's game. He is a doomsayer who speaks in the voice of a French dandy wit. He is a lover of order who defines maddened civil war within the ego as the natural state of man. His first book was published in English as The Temptation to Exist (TIME...