Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeling of futility makes us indifferent, and indifference itself makes for futility. When one is indifferent toward social problems, and toward the activities and interests of others, the result is one shows his difference on self, and too much difference on self makes for selfishness, because it inflates the ego...
...reports of violent deaths that the ability of the police to prevent these for twenty-four hours has become a subject of journalistic recognition. Before the era of the racket, policemen protected the lives of citizens and thought nothing of it. Now, in return for work well done, the ego of the "force" must be soothed by public exhibition of a record, quite possibly issued before the turn in the tide could bring any bodies back up the river...
...analysis: "[Lincoln's] moods never reached to that degree of profundity to justify the diagnosis of insanity. At all times Lincoln remained in touch with reality. His ego never sought refuge in insanity...
...wrote of the mind in groping, desperate pursuit of the unattainable; of the renunciation of pursuit for a life of vicarious excitment; of multitudinous selves, like a multitude of cells, forming a city's enormous brain; of the mystery of personal identity: of the impossibility of escape from the ego. Arid dangerous themes for poetry, certainly, but in elaborating them Aiken composed an iridescent epic of our inner world...
...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...