Word: ego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the best line in English poetry [TIME, Sept. 13]: the late eminent critic, George Saintsbury, plumped for Shakespeare's Hamlet line, "The rest is silence," as one of the two "jewels four words long" in all poetry. The other, of course (said Saintsbury), is Sappho's "Ego de mono, kateudo" [But I sleep alone...
...with a Flair. In the rowdy game of Australian politics, no man has played with more vigor and flair than Herbert Evatt. A twangy-voiced, clumsily eloquent, self-made man from the New South Wales coal-mine area, he blended a superior mind, a well-nourished ego and a twelve-cylinder ambition into a striking career: he earned the highest marks in the history of Sydney University's law school, scored sensationally as a defense lawyer, wrote eleven books (including an angry defense of Captain Bligh against Hollywood's version of the Mutiny on the Bounty), became King...
Next day Nehru spoke a little more moderately: "I have no desire . . . to moralize to anybody. I am deeply conscious of our own failings." But the Nehru line, restated by his alter ego in foreign affairs, Krishna Menon, was unchanged. SEATO is "the modern version of a protectorate," said Menon, dreamed up by imperialistic "outsiders" who were trying to dictate to the peoples of Asia...
kiddo," says Aunt Morgen, "you ought to see a doctor." Dr. Wright finds Elizabeth no more responsive than a waterlogged stick, until he tries hypnosis. Under hypnosis, Miss R.'s case, as the doctor calls it, becomes the plight of Goldilocks and those old Freudian bears, Superego, Ego and Id. Superego Elizabeth is a tense bundle of inhibitions clamped in the vise of social norms. Smothering within her is a sweet, outgoing girl, her potential Ego, whom the doctor nicknames Beth...
Confidence & Command. It is a type of human endeavor that calls for a soul well stiffened with ego. It calls for poise, concentration, vitality and, above all, for a kind of instinctive communion with the camera that comes partly from inner fiber, partly from vicissitude and long practice. Few possess these attributes in such full measure as that seamy, balding and corrosively sardonic old professional, Humphrey DeForest Bogart, soon to be seen as Captain Queeg in Stanley Kramer's heralded Technicolor version of The Caine Mutiny...