Word: ego
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britisher I have often had to undergo a deflation of inherited ego when reading in TIME about things we rather prefer not to know about, but I have to admit that the underlying friendliness of your criticisms of our failures and jibes at our weaknesses have rendered them instructive rather than hurtful...
...Capra & Writer Robert Riskin have wowed the public with several fairly intimate little pictures including It Happened One Night and You Can't Take It With You. They have also wowed the public with whoppers: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon. Director Capra, working without his Alter Ego Riskin, wowed the public with the heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description). Mr. Deeds went to town...
...High Commissioner is a diplomatic officer, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a colleague. The Governor General is an alter ego of the King, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a sovereign...
...lead to the high point of the play, a scene in which, fortified by a liberal dose of scotch, he decides to defend his mate by force, "like a tiger and his cubs." His eventual victory over the forces of ignorance is a wonderful boost to an intellectual ego shot to pieces by a week of midyears...
...Hopkins was to be appointed Ambassador to take Joe Kennedy's place. Someone else would get that job, which Hopkins was in no physical, political or diplomatic condition to fill. But as nearly as any man can be, nervous, thin, trigger-quick Harry Hopkins has become the alter ego of Franklin Roosevelt. Since last spring he has lived in the White House...