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...Steel Corporation, the beaming banker extended his hand and uttered the ultimate praise of the day: "Mr. Carnegie, I want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." What few men knew about "the greediest little gentleman ever created," as one biographer called Carnegie, was his inward conflict over wealth. He fretfully condemned the worship of money as "one of the worst species of idolatry," and in 1889 he wrote that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced." Before his own death in 1919, Carnegie gave away 90% of his money...
...people, resounded night and day to the thud of plastic bombs and the rattle of submachine guns; the staccato European war cry of Al-gé-rie Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center of a labyrinth of locked doors and guarded hallways; the entire civil administration of Algiers...
...mindlessly. His chief danger is the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art. From the caves of Altamira to the Apollo Belvedere, pagan art looked outward and celebrated man. From the cathedral of Chartres to the music of Bach, religious art looked upward and glorified God. Modern art looks inward, contemplating the artist's ego, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Williams has often come close to drowning in introspection. But he has always been saved by his urge to reach out and touch his audience and thus achieve his own surest moment of self-transcendence...
Riesman's observations have found that "in at least one ally, Japan, there is considerable uneasiness over the American shelter program and fear that it may symbolize a turning inward of American interests and policy...
...characters, even for those-and this is true mastery-that are thoroughly unlikable. Already he can evoke a subtle kind of suspense in which the reader wonders not merely "What will become of so-and-so?" but also "What will he become?" For the action, ultimately, proceeds inward, into the characters...