Word: ego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflicts, "which otherwise would have fought constantly with each other": his Puritan boyhood v. the hedonism he discovered in North Africa; his homosexuality v. his love for his cousin and wife, Emmanuèle; his emancipation from convention v. his search for a personal substitute; his artist's ego v. his social conscience. The conflicts showed in both his literary style and his personal appearance (he kept a Bible in the flowing cape he once affected...
...such, said the trustees, Grayson Kirk would be Eisenhower's "alter ego," acting in the president's behalf during "necessary absence or in the event of emergency." Last week, when the emergency came, Alter Ego Kirk stepped easily into the university's top job as Columbia's president in everything but name...
...Angeles Mirror last week, Reader W. Roman Horning explained the heady lure of the letters-to-the-editor column. Wrote he: "I write to the editor to satisfy my ego and frustration when life is dull and the future looks dreary, when no one thinks or cares for the little man of an insignificant nature. When the editor is kind enough to put the little man's little say in the paper, it puts him up in the clouds of ecstasy...
...What touchdown," a strident voice inside him asked. "You know perfectly well that everybody else is going to score the touchdowns. Think of what this is doing to your ego. Identifying yourself with a losing team is positively disintegrating...
Something Important. His career prospered and his salary increased. So did his political activities. Said a fellow writer: "You have a bunch of talented, sensitive writers who get no ego satisfaction out of their work. A story comes out on the screen a couple of years later bearing almost no relation to what they wrote. They only work about half a year, yet they want to feel that they're doing something important. So they take up the cause of the proletariat...