Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, attempts to re-create the fight world that existed in the 1900s, using the dramaturgy of the 1930s and drawing dubious parallels with events of the 1960s. James Earl Jones exudes vitality and ego energy as the first Negro heavyweight champion...
...Godard, drugtakers and anarchists, it excludes sexual stereotyping and indeed is a feminine mode in that it shuns ethical sweep for the underside of life that women have always been relegated to. (In contrast is the masculine, decisive mode of someone like Mailer, who emphasizes the battle of the ego with reality, the importance of choice, of change, of self-assertion, of evaluation coupled with insistent sexual discrimination...
...Doer is self-starting, and constantly in motion. His ego is proof against reverses. He is likely to be a moralist rather than an ideologue-a Ralph Nader instead of a Mark Rudd. Because he combines pragmatism, idealism and creativity, he can accept life's ambiguities-and then synthesize them into surprising new patterns. In Doer, wrath at the status quo translates into useful social action. In the revolutionary, it accummulates; unable to find release, it bursts into antisocial violence...
...love with his wife's deeply feminine nature; yet her serenity makes him irritable and her confidence bruis es his ego. He turns to other women, including his own mother-in-law, before accepting the fact that he has married well in spite of himself. The author writes in an easy, almost slangy style. But despite a refreshingly genial tone and an accurately observed setting, this first effort cries out for a master of magic who could turn some promising notes into a novel...
...chastened Spiro Agnew set out last week to project the image of philosopher-statesman. With ego-altering assistance from Stephen Hess, a polished speechwriter assigned to him from Nixon headquarters, the Republican vice-presidential nominee sounded restrained, deliberate and at times downright dull. His press conferences, noted one aide, "are guaranteed not to make news...