Word: ego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thorough westernization. He is evidently irked by the fendalism remaining in politics and provincialism in industry. They who hold that Japan can do better by consciously rejecting unsuitable portions of western civilization might see more progress. Nevertheless, these suggestions place the far eastern question in a light that the ego-istic westerner seldom sees. They show Japan, far from single-minded and bent on onset against the west, in the throes of difficult and diverse evolution. Which all goes to show that the popular mind, if not the scholarly mind also, is ignorant of just where the yellow peril lies...
This is a volume of exploits, explanations and ego. It is Benvenuto Cellini, reincarnated as a Scotch-American jack of all tricks and trades including newspaper cartooning, reminiscing at spry 65 over a career that began in the horsecar period. It brings in, with insouciant yet convincing familiarity, more famous names from all rosters of life than (perhaps) any other book ever published in the U. S. Its purpose is not to be historical, but since an age of arrogance is chronicled by one of its most superb exemplars, history is served with unwonted solicitude...
...Ego, sweet or bitter, is the essence of autobiography. Cartoonist McDougal's is exhilaratingly tart. Roosevelt once warned: "He can sting like an adder," but could have amended, from his knowledge of the man and of adders, that he was not wantonly poisonous. The tongue that flickers through these pages feels for its cheek oftener than not. And another thing: adders do not boast...
...Verse." He furnishes 14 packets of medicine for specific mental ailments: "Stimulants for a Faint Heart (Poems of Courage)"; "Mental Cocktails and Spiritual Pick-Me-Ups (Poems of Laughter)"; "Massage for a Muscle-bound Spirit (Poems of Emancipation)"; "Poppy Juice for Insomnia (Soothers and Soporifics)"; "To Deflate the Ego (Ingredients for a Humble Pie)"; etc. Although the editor offers them half with tongue- in-cheek, there is no reason why his prescriptions should not effect cures quite as marvelous and as numerous as those produced by innocuous sugar pills. Incidentally, his selection of poems is well made although far from...
...various angles and then building up proof to support the conclusions of the author, as one might expect in this enlightened age, the book devotes very little space to specific issues, and abounds in vituperative generalities directed against the late President Wilson. That Mr. Wilson's cosmos was all ego, that "the key to all he did was that he thought of everything in terms of Wilson," is Mr. Lodge's principal assertion. This is supplemented by averments to the effect that the former president had great personal ambitions without the nerve or daring to fight for them; that...