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These included much self-criticism.
His childhood on his family's sylvan 3,500 acre estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was one of almost unimaginable privilege, yet from the beginning he felt compelled to flatter, cajole, and even engage in abject self-criticism if that's what it took to get his way, particularly with his puritanical and disapproving father.
Garry Wills' lethal piece in the New York Times Book Review blasts the book: "The self-importance underneath the self-criticism is breathtaking."
Rodchenko, who for a couple of years after the Revolution continued to ally himself with the soon-to-be-banned anarchists, now felt the shifting winds and bent himself to various acts of public self-criticism, but even so he found himself unable to obtain permits for street photography.
But firm convictions also inhibit doubt, self-criticism, and learning.