Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophoclean horror. A pool of blood glistened on the floor of one bedroom. In another, a torn, blood-soaked bed comforter lay under a two-piece yellow-and-white bathing suit that had been hung up to dry. The pages of a mimeographed lecture ("The Mental Mechanisms for Ego Defense") were strewn about the floor near a second puddle of blood. Bloodstains smeared the front of a record album on a bed. A calendar (Sept. 8: "Hallelujah. Training completed") lay crumpled on a night table. A blood-drenched sneaker remained where it had fallen. The upstairs bath was awash with...
...less than a year ago was a snarling, swaggering demagogue whose hatred for the West made the Kremlin seem a neutralist. True enough, the Bung himself was not a Red ("Me bow down to Moscow? Anybody who ever came near Sukarno knows he has too much ego to be a slave to anybody"). Nor was Indonesia a member of the Communist bloc. Sukarno had his own ideas. His government, he constantly proclaimed, was based on the principle of NASAKOM-the happy union of Nationalism, Religion and Communism. The world was divided into NEKOLIM (neocolonialist imperialist powers) and NEFOS (the Newly...
...into each other. In those days, as Lewis Mumford has pointed out, a lady's bedchamber still served as a reception room for her guests; only gradually did it become a retreat (boudoir is derived from the French bonder, to sulk). Privacy became valued as individualism and the ego became valued. In earlier times, retreating into solitude was a religious act; now privacy became a devotion in the new secular religion of the self...
Died. Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, 72, MacArthur's World War II chief of staff who, as his commander's alter ego, shared the darkest and finest hours-from the bitter Corregidor retreat in 1942 to the final surrender ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in September 1945; after a long illness; in Washington...
...point out that such spontaneous heroes may be motivated only by suppressed anxiety or a desire for violent action. The soldier who flings himself on a grenade is simply reacting to a "subconscious impulse toward self-destruction" or because "identification with the group supersedes his own ego." It seems a singularly graceless way of defining an impulse that still stirs human hearts: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends...