Word: narcissus
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...Edwin O'Connor has always created characters with a tongue or two in their heads. In his first play, his hero is a retired vaudevillian, Waltzing Daniel Considine. Burgess Meredith acts, sings, and dances the part as if gazing nostalgically into the splintered mirror of a show-biz Narcissus grown...
There is evidence that the Book-ofthe-Month Club could not exist with out Rumer Godden. In the 24 years since she published Black Narcissus, she has provided B.O.M. with half a dozen of those soft-focus domesticated dra mas that brush across a reader's mind as soothingly as a summer breeze...
...Narcissus greeted Cassius Clay Gave him his flower, slunk away...
...phoniness and provides amusement. But Salinger the phonyslayer is a bit of a fraud himself. For what are the Glasses but seven faces of the author, and his glorification of them is a triumph of egotism. Far from being amusing, the stories become instead a view into "a terrifying Narcissus pool." Seymour's suicide suggests the author's fear of the possibility of his own faults. "Did Seymour kill himself because he had married a phony... or because he was so happy and the Fat Lady's world was so wonderful?" asks Miss McCarthy. "Or because he had been lying...
...because Scotland beat France 11-6 at rugby." The real reason why De Gaulle vetoed Britain, retorted Foreign Secretary Lord Home, was that "two visions of Europe had come into head-on collision. One was of Europe so ordered that it would be a third force, protected, exclusive, Narcissus-like in its self-glory. The other, a Europe of equal, politically mature nations in complete partnership with America and doing their duty by the whole world outside...