Word: ego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them while she sat in her garden or study between arduous hours compiling a ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent a day of their southerning in her evergreens, she took them personally, sadly. She wrote of lilacs, passionate to identify herself once more with her old New England...
...lorry had crushed her by accident. Monsieur Ripois knew better-much better. Pilfering meanly from life, he had failed to perceive and accept its rich free gift. The grief that came upon him, the suffering through another that he learned, was too great for even his cynical, acquisitive ego to shake off. Returning to France to beg on the roads, thought he: "How careful you have...
...caller at the House of Commons was Colonel E. M. House, once the alter ego of President Woodrow Wilson. In the Premier's room was held a private conversation. Mr. Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and Colonel House participated...
...most improved form places an emphasis on the marshalling rather than the creative faculties of man. The writing of a thesis ought not to prove particularly onerous in consideration of the abolition of the examination, and it should prove a source of gratification to the under graduate ego an opportunity to do something of one's own rather than a compulsion to complete an assignment by some-one else. Special honors should be granted for the best theses in each department. In addition, the announcement of the prizes for essays, poems, and special studies, now existing in the College should...
...Great Man himself. Written, as the title hints, at St. Helena, the book is virtually Napoleon's confession of his faith; and his faith was something not to be measured by known standards. It was primarily his faith in himself. It is a story of an Imperial Ego in which the Egoist describes the events of his reign "because his character and his intentions may be strangely misrepresented." They probably are, have been, and will continue to be. Napoleon proceeds to set matters right. The task is not small; his book is, however, too small to save him from...