Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Lasch is not amused by what he calls a "cultural radicalism": the decadence of American individualism. Its chief symptom: "The pursuit of happiness to the dead end of a narcissistic preoccupation with the self." The Narcissus of mythology, infatuated by his own reflection, pined away because he could not consummate self-love. Lasch's new narcissist has similar anxieties but feels no guilt. He has drunk the waters of progressive education and popular culture, and has little memory of traditional values and religious beliefs...
...order to break the existing pattern of dependence and put an end to the erosion of competence, citizens will have to take the solution of their problems into their own hands. They will have to create their own 'communities of competence.' Only then will the productive capacities of modern capitalism, together with the scientific knowledge that now serves it, come to serve the interests of humanity instead. In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal 'growth' and 'awareness'-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope...
Orton's grisly end and stark beginnings enclose one of the most compelling biographies of the past year, a psychological study of egos in conflict, marred but not destroyed by Author John Lahr's overlong digressions into literary analysis...
...feet, content to type his novels. Gradually he began making suggestions, then started collaborating. Finally he struck out on his own, demonstrating a talent for the comic and bizarre that Halliwell could admire but never imitate. As Orton's confidence grew, Halliwell's diminished, leaving, at the end, only the dangerous embers of envy and resentment...
...end of an hour, Bacall said, "I'm not tired, but my arm is, a little," and stood up to go. The crowd cheered and applauded, and she murmured "thank you" in a still husky voice...