Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ego-Building Bellicosity. Should a real crunch develop in the Mideast, would the U.S.-in the absence of U.N. action-intervene? In a speech at Newport News, Va., the President dropped an oblique hint that it would feel strongly compelled to do so. The occasion was the launching of the 61,450-ton attack carrier John F. Kennedy, christened by Caroline Kennedy, 9, with her mother Jacqueline standing alongside as matron of honor and a clutch of Kennedys near by. While earnestly praying that "this majestic ship" would sail the world's oceans in peace, Johnson noted that...
...week's end the necessity for such a move seemed remote. Despite Nasser's ego-building bellicosity, he does not really seem to want a showdown, for he is well aware that the Arab world is badly fragmented and that Israel's finely honed army could turn back anything less than a concerted assault by all of its neighbors. In this situation, Johnson's strategy is to leave the problem in the U.N.'s lap for as long as possible in the hope that Egypt will somehow find a way to disimpale itself from...
...migrated to Manhattan. There, between appearances on TV shaving commercials, he cultivated the mysterious side of his nature. He became a vegetarian to help "clear up my mental vibrations," studied yoga and Zen, which he describes as "that silence between the left side and the right side of your ego, the illogical logic that has to work...
...Beyond the ego" is where Coburn wants to be. He is currently co-producing and starring in The President's Analyst, but that, he allows, is just to satisfy the outer man. "We must be here for some reason, not just to make movies and lie in the sun. Man can't be finished. The cat is. The gorilla is. We must be here for a self-evolution, a development of the mind...
...last Hemingway is Papa running off at the mouth, unzipping his ego in public, and writing manic sentences...