Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody in the group works against someone. Jack and Jorma, Spencer and Paul. When the Beatles were at the height of their popularity, it was more of a group sound. Something was expected from each man. They didn't have the ego hassles that we have. Maybe that's because today's group members' are better musicians. Each of us has had a lot of background in traditional blues and folk. The old rock 'n' roll musicians learned to play from listening...
...Please do not understand me too quickly," Mailer writes, and almost everything about the man disproves the Establishment's caricature of him as a fire-breathing, bad-mouthing ogre, whose only literary impulse is to fuel his own ego. Mailer is kind to children, careful to remember acquaintances' names, and polite even to the boorish fan who traps him after a reading with a five-minute, existential question...
Lettvin put on a show of his own without slides. He asked himself whether he would trade places with Leary, who claimed he was ecstatic. "Why don't I? Is it love of the real world? Is it that my own ego would be destroyed?" Lettvin said he objected to LSD on moral grounds, since certain drugs cause permanent suspension of judgment. To opt for saying "so what?" he argued, was an unbearable decision...
Even before publication, Robert Daley's satirical roman à clef about a Great New York Newspaper set off much who's-who gossip in the city room of a Great New York Newspaper. Who, for example, is Paul Pettibon, the Paris bureau chief with the ego of a De Gaulle and a sense of insecurity to rival that of Charlie Brown's pal Linus? Who is Jack L. Banglehorster, the slow-moving, ruminative foreign editor who feels that his first duty is "to report the same news the opposition papers reported...
...Romney's main political drawback is his self-righteousness. Any midwestern Puritan with inflexible religious convictions and a strong ego would be hard to stomach at times. Romney does not consider himself a politician and has belittled legislators who vote on party lines rather than on "what's right." Romney thinks he is right, and he needs to be right. His indecision on the major issues is more than political necessity; a fear of ever being wrong is ingrained deeply within...