Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Auberon Waugh is the son of the late Evelyn Waugh and a facile satirist in his own right (The Foxglove Saga, Path of Dalliance). The hero of Violets is an epicene idealist who ghostwrites advice columns for a woman's magazine and comforts his faltering ego in a spare-time campaign for world peace. He also campaigns to seduce the white mistress of a Negro extremist, but before he can succeed, he meanders his motorcycle euphorically, and fatally, into the path of a passing automobile. So much, says Author Auberon, for epicene idealists. He has obviously inherited his father...
...good people. The Gods pay her for their night's lodging with enough money to start a small tobacco shop. Screaming freeloaders move in; she falls in love with a worthless unemployed flyer; her every good deed brings ruin. To save herself, she invents a businesslike, ruthless alter ego, Shui Ta, who is successful and dastardly. How to reconcile goodness and survival? Shen Te can't manage it, nor can the bumbling gods...
...replies gently: "I know you're right artistically, but, unfortunately, this is the way it will sell." He may suggest a less complicated "story line," or a different twist to the melody, or a switch in rhythm. He also knows how to boost a youngster's ego. Composer Tommy Boyce, 22, and Lyricist Bobby Hart, 23, came in from Hollywood last week, played Donnie a new ballad called Sunday, the Day Before Monday...
...Kent, reporter for the Daily Planet, Superman is heckled by a Winchellesque gossipist with an ego bigger than
Uriah Heep. Despite the ego-building assignments, there were inevitably frustrations and uncertainties. For the first session of the 89th Congress-the better part of 1965-Johnson wanted Humphrey to spend much of his time at the Capitol doing convoy duty on the passage of Great Society legislation. He had vast knowledge of the Senate and the issues, and excellent relations with many members of Congress. Yet Humphrey found, as Johnson had as Vice President, that his influence had largely evaporated. "I am in the club," as he put it, "but no longer a member." He had little to offer...