Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frontier still lingers in the American character, they believe, aggravated to extremes in a few individuals by the pressure to succeed and the social and economic mobility of American society. Perhaps, as many psychiatrists insist, the American mother's increasingly powerful position in the family has weakened the ego of American men, who are with rare exceptions responsible for mass murder in the U.S. All, or none, of this may be true?or, most likely, part of it. But the fact is that mass murder is by no means an exclusive American institution; it has been perpetrated in scores...
Good for the Ego. Early reading has its defenders. Dr. Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital, contends that "teaching young children anything that enlarges their ego is good for them," and "any activity that demonstrates a mother's emotional interest in her child is very important for a three-year-old." Many experts also applaud the games, art, musical records and picture books that help prepare a child for school but do not pressure him to read...
Divorced. By France Nuyen, 27, French-born Eurasian actress (The World of Suzie Wong): Dr. Thomas Caspar Morell, 33, Manhattan psychiatrist who, La Belle France claimed, "knew how to ignore and destroy a woman's ego"; after three years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...football's Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles once merged into "The Steagles." The man is Harold Aaron ("Heshy") Weissburg, a nice Jewish intellectual who lives with his nice wife and their two nice children until-CHOONG! The Cuban missile crisis blows up his complacency and releases his alter ego: an unquiet Quixote who jumps on the nearest jet and goes whooshing across the U.S. in search of his true identity. Like Bloom in darkling Dublin, like Mitty in the mazes of Waterbury, Conn., he dissolves into fantasies elaborated to suggest simultaneously a madness in himself and in America. Headlines...
Before 40, one adds and feeds to gorge the ego; after 40, one subtracts and simplifies to slim the soul. With the final image of one's existence even faintly in view, the self seems pettier and the words "service," "love of others," "compassion" not only creep into the middle-ager's vocabulary but add meaning to his life. In church work, social work, community fund drives, culture centers, middle-agers are always at the fore. Sol Linowitz, 52, chairman of the executive committee of Xerox Corp., defines his abiding purpose: "I want to leave the world...