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...20th century with bleak contempt. He has gone on record as admiring Giacometti and Picasso; for a few others, a few words of respect; beyond that, the sense of isolation is ferocious. The motto of an aristocratic French family declared: "Roi ne puis, prince ne daigne, Rohan je suis" (King I cannot be; prince I do not deign to be; I am a Rohan). Shift the context and you have the epitome of Bacon's own view of his place in 20th century...
...incident that vividly illustrated the divisions within the party came as more than 100,000 people gathered around a rain-slicked outdoor stage to hear Singer Robert Charlebois. Halfway through a chorus of Je veux de l'amour (I want love), he suddenly stopped and told the crowd, "This song has one minute to go, but I won't sing it. I will dedicate it to those 269 souls who are absent today." His words drew loud cheers, along with a smattering of catcalls...
...first-person pronoun I is a basic starting point: ego, je, ich, io, ya. In Japanese, where nothing is that simple, the word has two dozen or more forms, depending on who is talking, and to whom, and the social relationship between them. An elderly man might refer to himself as washi, but his wife would say watashi, or, for that matter, atakushi, or atashi; their daughter might say atai and their son boku. Then there is temae, which means both you and I. But the Japanese often evade these social difficulties by dropping all pronouns entirely...
...world of fashion, even when they may not be recognized. Show clothes that are funny, disrespectful and touched by madness, as Vivienne West wood did, and you risk not being taken seriously. But show without a show, as Giorgio Armani did with his mannequins and video, and you JE risk being taken no way at all. You may default on your lifetime role in that seasonal display of glamour, giddiness and social scrambling that travels from country to country like a medicine show offering cures for which there are no known diseases...
...have nothing in common except that they "take defenseless little children seriously. "There are lovers ("The French are moving towards a society of pals, away from an ideal of passion.") There are workers and scattered archetypes: the bourgeois Plane Bourcel who fears the rise of laziness, or "je m'en foutisme"; the Duc de Brossac who does not know the meaning of the word meritocracy. More often, Zeldin offers type and then shatters it (we discover that Brigitte Bardot likes "looking after her house.") The ineffectiveness of such examples merely shows Zeldin is looking for something he cannot humanly give...