Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, on his media shyness: "America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance...
...agreement: proximity. "You pick on what's close," says Social Worker Evans. Harvard Psychiatry Professor Alvin Poussaint suggests in his book Why Blacks Kill Blacks that such violence is a manifestation of self-hatred and repressed rage, which he says are a legacy of racism. Killing someone who mirrors oneself is a reflection of hating oneself. "Violence can be a potent drug for the oppressed person," Poussaint says. "Reacting to the futility of his life, the individual derives an ultimate sense of power when he holds the fate of another human being in his hands." Poussaint goes...
Composing an ad with oneself as the product is an interesting psychological exercise, and probably good training in self-assertion. Truth will endure a little decorative writing, perhaps. The personals are a form of courtship that is more efficient, and easier on the liver, than sitting in bars night after night, hoping for a lucky encounter. Yet one feels sometimes a slightly disturbed and forlorn vibration in those columns of chirpy pleading. It is inorganic courtship. There is something severed, a lost connection. One may harbor a buried resentment that there are not parents and aunts and churches and cotillions...
...personal ad is an odd art form, a song of oneself that is also a plea, a form of courtship both funny and forlorn...
Kilty chose to do double duty in this production; in addition to directing, he has also taken the part of the over-educated Spanish rogue, Don Armado. Most actors will attest that directing oneself is a big mistake; Woody Allen does it, but Allen is a genius. Kilty...