Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book of brash short stories (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze) won him the reputation of most terrible literary infant of the year. Since then William Saroyan has been increasingly a problem child. Critics and readers alike have been impressed by his audacity, displeased by his bounding ego. His coldest dispraisers admit that he sometimes blurts out a suggestive truth; his warmest admirers wish occasionally that he would not shout so loud. Last week Saroyan's fourth book, Little Children, well illustrated his inclusive vices and his eclectic virtues. Of the 17 stories printed, perhaps half were...
...President Frick's purpose in chastising Pitcher Dean was to deflate his ego, he failed sadly. Instead there followed an absurd uproar which filled U. S. sports pages for three days while Pitcher Dean reiterated: "I'm not goin' to sign nothin'!" Baseball's noisiest dispute since Babe Ruth was fined $5,000 for insubordination in 1925, the Dean-Frick fight ended after three days in a ludicrously solemn compromise. Witnessed by two dozen newshawks, President Frick asked Pitcher Dean whether he had made the remarks attributed to him by the Belleville Advocate...
Society girls and shop girls float by on possessive arms, laughing at the weather, smoothing and beguiling the gullible male Ego. Cars start, cars stop, two bumpers clash, the paper boy shouts his news apologetically from the corner. High heels click on the wet sidewalks, wisps of conversation follow one upon another as feet come...
...distinction is highly important, and one which the student is in danger of over-looking due to the world's apparent disregard for it. Here the superficialities of life must be recognized; the real rewards go to the innovators for their vision and originality. There is little but the ego of man which is increased by knowledge "of wide surface and small depth", or as President Conant expressed it, "Few of the values which feed the human soul can be found by studying mere information...
...awkward, frail girl, visibly awed by the new world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished at a series of billboards in which Dietrich and her limbs were formally presented to the U. S. Writers, columnists created for von Sternberg's star the sobriquet...