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Sam Schulman complains in the Wall Street Journal that despite the excellent material, Eisler "cannot capture" the essence of Byron's power "because her earnestness misses his seductive combination of modesty, irony, self-doubt and self-confidence."
Back in the old days, like 1979 or 1959, the Times editorial page was the repository of the conventional wisdom written in a uniquely ponderous style that combined voice-of-God self-confidence and the bromides of a foundation-backed task-force report.
(There is also a brash self-confidence to Pooh: He composes to himself that would have done Whitman proud.)
It takes a long time for him to gain the self-confidence to work elsewhere in the community.
By definition, nebbishes are whiners, lacking self-confidence, generally inept, and on the losing end of social transactions--all characteristics that work against their ever achieving fame.