Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blandness & Buses. In private, Lodge minces no words about Teddy. "I consider it a base impropriety that Teddy is so blatantly using his relationship with his brother for selfish purposes. What has he done to understand the world or Massachusetts? I first met Teddy in Nigeria during a meeting of the African region of the I.L.O. Teddy was there for a day and a half. He talks like that made him an expert on Nigeria. Well, I know what he learned there because I briefed him. He does not know Nigeria. He pretends he does. It's a phony...
Purple Noon studies its characters carefully, and Clement has made full use of a small but uniformly excellent cast. As Phillipe, Maurice Ronet is more than the usual doomed playboy: he creates a memorable picture of selfish animalism. When Marge delays making love to lecture him on art, he explodes, destroys her notes, and roars "Why do you mix Fra Angelico and love...
...married daughter (Harriet Andersson) and her doctor husband (Max von Sydow), all on vacation on an isolated Baltic island. The daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like a rabbit, before the great snake of the unconscious...
...snake that has led us all to doom. Somehow he fails to see that self-realization, far from being morally shallow and a goal that produces "a democracy of desire," is the one most noble and difficult task of our lives. To Phenix, self-fulfillment is equated with selfish ambition, acquisition and success. It is obvious that he has distorted the meaning of fulfillment...
...That the world, man and his culture are neither self-sufficient nor self-explanatory, but are derived from given sources of being, meaning and value. That the supremely worthful is not finite or limited but transcends all human comprehension and every human achievement. That the life of selfish ambition, the struggle for autonomy, acquisition and success, and attachment to finite goods, lead in the end to misery, conflict, guilt, despair, boredom and frustration. That every individual has a personal calling to turn from following after desire to a life of loving and grateful dedication to what is of ultimate worth...