Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfect. His God-fearing parents of modest means, the excellence of his record in school, his beginnings as a lawyer in Whittier (known as "Ye Friendly Town"), and his liking for pineapple milk shakes are all almost too good to be true. He has an amazing degree of self-control and neatness-the secretary of his old Whittier law firm recalls that when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them-and these qualities also mark him in his public life. And yet, says Author Mazo. "nothing...
...Self-interest, in La Rochefoucauld's view, was clearly the carrot that made men trot, as money was later singled out by Balzac, and sex by Freud. Yet, in obsessively concentrating on one human trait, as Author-Critic Louis Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger...
Tennessee Williams may present us with many moments that try our patience with their childlike cries of self-pity and loneliness, but when he touches on a nerve of human experience, as he most certainly can, something quite electric takes place and suddenly the stage is filled with light. In his attempt to depart as thoroughly as possible from the Broadway production, Mr. Rabb fails to let us see that light, and gives us instead something more like the gaudy, flashing neon signs that outline his production--occasionally bright, but seldom brilliant
...Modigliani and an unusual Toulouse-Lautrec. Of the Soutines, the Gorge du Loup is least noteworthy: I find most Soutine landscapes pretty dreary matters and this essay in murky tones and crude distortions is no exception to the rule. Neither, more or less, is his rather unflattering-to-one Self Portrait. There is more of an attempt to show structural and coloristic harmony, but the colors tend to get rather high in range and the structure collapses in places. The last Soutine is an excellent Portrait of a Lady in which the palette and brush are subtly used, the artist...
...bloc to the Fogg) is also on view upstairs at the Fogg, where its future owners have complemented the collection's brilliance with a well-balanced, elegantly proportioned, and grandly spaced installation--which looks good from any spot. The 19th century gallery is particularly impressive with Van Gogh's Self Portrait, the primus inter pares of the lot. The brilliant lime-green brushwork which forms a halo around the artist's head is both economical and expressive and the demonic eyes with yellow pupils, the red defining lines of the nose and mouth, and the curious (and heavily painted) medallion...