Word: ego
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships, and operating them. Even Land admitted that his multisided job was too big for any one man. It reminded him of an advertisement in a small-town newspaper, he cracked: "Wanted-a good barber who can play third base and the slide trombone." Last week his two egos were finally separated. In charge of shipbuilding for some time has been his alter ego, Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery. Last week he got another deputy to handle ship operations. Lewis William Douglas was appointed to tackle the job of utilizing cargo space wisely & well...
...Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against inflation and its rationing schemes, bossed civilian supply. and became the biggest financial man in the U.S. as boss of OPA. > The team of thoughtful, gentle Vice President Henry Wallace and his alter ego, Businessman Milo Perkins, who got full power last week to forge international trade into a weapon against the Axis in their Board of Economic Warfare
...understood only by first understanding his emotions, and that the key to emotional conduct is observation of physiological reactions. From this starting-point he goes on to consider Freud's analysis of the individual mind and to apply it to society as a whole. The accepted Freudian terms, id, ego, and superego, are used to describe the basic reasons for behavior in every social activity. In one of the chapters, revolutionary dialectic is explained by identifying Marx's thesis, antithesis, and synthesis with Frend's three terms...
Saroyan is not at all orthodox about his procedure in playwriting. His flamboyant ego, his unreserved sentimentality and love for the people, have baffled the critics, who, at first, accused him of being a hoax. His ingenuous personality and his unashamed bravado puzzled the more mature and sophisticated onlookers. But now he is recognized as the leader of a one-man cult. He wants mood most of all in drama; plot, situation and character are all incidental to the creation of the proper feeling. A play, for him, must excite as music does, in a sweeping, comprehensive whole...
...Nazi occupation of Poland. As the Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne of Warsaw's Polski troupe, the Turas (Jack Benny and Miss Lombard) are a brittle couple. Their favorite soliloquy is Hamlet's To be, or not to be. . . . He likes to deliver it because it flatters his ego, at length; she likes it because it gives her time to entertain her male admirers backstage...