Word: everyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FitzGibbon accepts as sound the plebiscites that gave Hitler up to 99% Ja. But if all Germans were guilty, he seems to wonder, why should countless individuals be singled out for punishment? If Eichmann, why not Everyman...
...first, he proved better at transferring than at creating. His early experiment, The Left-Handed Gun, starring a self-conscious Paul Newman as Billy the Kid, paid heavy homage to the Actors Studio. Mickey One was a sedulously Francophilic film with Warren Beatty in the unlikely role of Everyman. But both movies displayed a moral force and a growing understanding of the possibilities of film. With Bonnie and Clyde, Penn abruptly became an internationally recognized film maker. In his newest film, Alice's Restaurant, Penn gives visual substance to Mocking-Bard Arlo Guthrie's instant-hit record...
...most blatant appeal to the freeloader in Everyman occurs at Cavanagh's on West 23rd Street, where drinking is done on the honor system; waiters bring full whisky bottles and setups to the tables, and customers are expected to tot up their own bar bills. "If you tell us you only had one double bourbon we'll believe you," reads an ad for Cavanagh's, and Ellman says: "We want the customer to feel that he's putting one over on us, that he's got the edge...
...critic foolish enough to exclaim "Aha!" over gross parallels between Nabokov's experience and his literary creations is viewed by the author with scorn. Yet the soft, pervasive breath of Paradise Lost that whispers through Ada is more than an echo of Everyman's lost ardor. It is a transmogrified version of Nabokov's own lost private Eden in the Russia of his childhood. With his wealthy and gifted family, he lived in a town house in prerevolutionary St. Petersburg, and at Vyra, an idyllic, rambling country estate. For Nabokov, his two brothers and two sisters and their parents, life...
...Everyman Figure. The task is beyond him. Eventually he presents his publisher with the jumbled chronicle of another American prisoner who also survived the raid, as well as some of the horrors of peace and prosperity. Too archly named Billy Pilgrim, the second survivor is hardly a real character-"there are almost no characters in this book," Vonnegut says, "because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces." But he does very well as something between a consumer-age Candide and a Vonnegut Everyman figure...