Word: ego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President may not be enjoined, argued Assistant Attorney General Holmes Baldridge. There is no precedent for it and, in fact, the Constitution "prohibits the courts from encroaching on executive authority." In the steel seizure, "the President is an indispensable party . . . Whether [or not] he acts through an alter ego [i.e., Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, federal boss of the steel mills], the courts will not interfere...
Bazna lay doggo for almost eight months, under constant Turkish police surveillance. Recently, either because he badly needed the money or because his vaulting ego demanded it, he gave a private concert in Istanbul . . . (he has a melodious baritone voice). The concert drew a "gate" of more than 1,000 Turkish lira [about $350] . . . Bazna was seized again, the box-office receipts impounded, and he is currently under arrest . . . He is 51 years of age and the father of six children...
Virulent, cajoling, sarcastic, he went at the Prime Minister with a barbed compliment ("I freely admit that [he] is the most articulate Englishman that has ever lived . . . How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...
...later years Charles Dickens was almost as famous a reader as he was a writer. What he read were his own works, aloud, before huge, rapturous, often hysterical audiences in England, Scotland, Ireland, the U.S. These strenuous performances filled his pockets, ministered to his stage-struck ego and almost certainly shortened his life. His friends, indeed, opposed his 1867 U.S. tour, which proved as taxing as it was triumphant...
...None of us know really what or who we are,' he said, "but I believe that my burglaries were merely compensation for an ego deficiency ... I still don't know myself well enough to say. Who does really know himself?" As for Francine, Nettler was broadminded. "She has her own conflict," he said. "She's got talent. But she's all mixed...