Word: self-doubt
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Nothing but Color. In public, Cézanne was a granitic misanthrope who could snarl through his snarled beard: "Compared to me, my compatriots are asses. I detest them all." Privately, he was racked with self-doubt: "I am a timid man, a bohemian, and people laugh at me." Late in life, he confessed that his painting had "made some progress. Why so late and so painfully...
Eventually Peppone, basically a good sort, who really has a healthy respect and fondness for his rival, reaches the point of self-doubt, and says: "I feel as if I were in jail." Don Camillo, with no doubts, has had a vast advantage all along: the benefit of Christ's spoken advice from the crucifix in Don Camillo's own church. Christ argues with him, humors him, acts as his conscience. Once, after the priest has knocked out a swaggering boxer, Christ bids him good night with "Sleep well, champ." Later, when Don Camillo grouses about the weight...
When she is working on a picture, Betty makes it a point to be in bed by 9 p.m., turns out before 6. On the rare occasions when she is not playing to the crowd, she is likely to be quiet, moody, tortured by self-doubt. During the filming of Annie, she would telephone Director George Sidney at night: "Were you really satisfied with that take? . . . But you didn't smile at me very much. Are you sure you aren't mad at me?" Or she would telephone Sidney's wife to ask fretfully if the boss...
...already shifted the Ed Wynn Show, the Saturday Night Revue's strongest competitor, to Tuesdays. "We're trying to make people feel that they're eavesdropping on a Broadway show," says Liebman. "I think we can do it, too." There was only one evidence of self-doubt: "I just hope NBC doesn't expect us to keep this up 52 weeks a year...
...carry man's inhumanity to man "to its ultimate absurdity-namely the inhumanity of men other men have been inhuman to," the cruelly of the victim who victimizes somebody else. People who laugh at this are not "heartless wretches," wrote Capp, but "normal human beings, full of self-doubt . . . full of a desperate need to be reassured...