Word: egos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dizzying boom-and bust-climate of Thatcherism; second, as a gay man at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could easily overpower a less skillful writer, turning the novel into mere sermon or satire. But Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually obsessive eye for beauty, whether found in the heights of a Gothic cathedral, the curves of his first lover, Leo, or the electric rush of cocaine. He finds it quite often...
...remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like a man who will stand right in front of you at a horse race...
...This circular structure leaves little room for serious character or plot development, and the audience doesn’t glean much beyond the basic facts. We learn that he’s a talented and popular young writer with a big ego (“I left Columbia and I don’t regret it / I wrote a book and Sonny Mehta read it,” he croons). We learn that she’s a struggling actress who spends the summers slaving away in a crummy theatre in Ohio, and that she feels lousy about not being...
...happy, but my concentration is on playing well this week. It’s not going to inflate my ego,” Breaux said...
Many of the performers are students at the New England Conservatory or at Berklee School of Music and are refreshingly free of the ego that more seasoned jazzmen often bring to the table. While you won’t see Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, or Brad Mehldau here, you will see brash young prodigies who hit on sweater-clad girls or run to nearby pizza places between sets. Friday night, most members of the band didn’t even look old enough to get in the door...