Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that TIME has not run, entitled The Greatest Story Never Told. The villains are the editors, the heroes us. In the meantime, I plead guilty to the following: in Casablanca, the Moor the merrier; at the Berlin Wall, the best things in life are flee; Adenauer is der Alter Ego; and Khrushchev was the Vulgar Boatman...
...aware that only one of them is likely to survive. The Trib is losing $300,000 a year; the Times's losses are said to be over $1.5 million. "We are prepared to go on losing money for years if necessary," says Gruson. "But I have just enough ego to think we can overtake the Trib in two years." Weiss is no less confident. "The Trib is a home-town paper for a hell of a lot of people," he says. "It's a window on America for a hell of a lot of others...
...Theory of the Center," a popular conception of modern prophets, describes consciousness as starting from a central point (the ego) and working towards larger horizons. Krishnamurti takes issue with the basic premise of this theory (the distinction between inner and outer worlds) and insists that "if you try to expand the center, you remain a captive of its boundaries. No matter how far you go, your consciousness will always be limited...
...Pride. Her powers of persuasion are considerable-and her speech writers are good too. To the population of Page, Ariz., assembled to witness the dedication of the 710-ft. Glen Canyon Dam, Lady Bird Johnson last week recalled "those disfigurements of rocks and trees where someone with a huge ego and tiny mind has splashed with paint or gouged with knife to let the world know that Kilroy or John Doe was here." But the beautification drive, she went on, "is a new kind of 'writing on the wall'-a kind that says proudly and beautifully...
...Ego Chewing. This is the kind of virtuoso performance that Met regulars have come to know as the Bing style: a disarming combination of urbanity and no-nonsense determination, wit and steely single-mindedness. In opera, where people chew on each other's egos like lozenges, Bing's cool cools all. "I really enjoy dealing with difficult people," he says. "I just make them believe they really want to do what I want them to do." Or else...