Word: ego
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructor had a shock several weeks ago when, after dismissing his class, he walked into the hall, looked into another classroom and saw Bob's alter ego reciting. The teacher "swore off" for a few days...
...talebearing species. "Some poor little girl comes to Hollywood. She's lonely. . . . The wolves call and call. . . . You have lunch . . . they'll seem so nice, courteous, and very correct. . . . Six months later the girl is supposed to be . . . the most horrible person in Hollywood. . . . They have an ego that has been frustrated...
This treatment works only on a soldier whose ego is still pretty much in command of his cosmos. About 60% of the selected cases on which the Army uses it are improved enough to return to battle. Colonel Grinker admits the necessity of this slapdash technique, but he thinks that speed is the only thing in its favor. He says it is hard to tell whether the returned troops are effective in combat, that the end result in many cases of repressed anxiety will be a mental problem after the war, if not before...
...though he hugs the limelight with a showman's depthless ego, in Hope himself is a hunger, or perhaps a final vanity, to reach people as a human being. For a performer who scarcely takes time out to live, perhaps it is the only way of being...
...Happy Birthday to You." These facts, a warning to the overoptimistic among the Allies and some scant balm for the crushed Italian ego, did not make the conquest of the first territory within metropolitan Italy any more palatable to the war-sick, disorganized and frustrated Italian people. Mussolini waited 24 hours before officially announcing the capitulation, claiming that Italian airmen were having "great successes" and finally that Pantelleria had been turned into a "gigantic volcano." Italians did not miss the fact that the defeat came exactly three years and one day after Mussolini had led Italy into war against France...