Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relations since World War II than any other great power in history. Through billions of dollars of foreign aid and a generation of troops stationed in Europe and Korea, through the Berlin and Cuban crises, through endless haggles with Russia, through millions of words at the U.N., through wearisome ego-salving for scores of tiny new nations, through insults from foes, obstruction from allies, envy from all sides, the U.S. has shown incredible self-control. Under the most extreme provocation, the U.S. maintained links with Indonesia and Ghana, thereby strengthening the anti-Communist forces that in recent weeks moved against...
...handle. A lot of them wallow in self-pity and denigrate those who have made it in the 'square' world. They see Nirvana in LSD, with its perceptual wonders, the intensity, luminosity and throbbing of colors. True, this can be blissful, but there is danger of ego loss or psychosis when someone with paranoid tendencies or a rigid personality glimpses his personal problem. It can be truly hellish...
...Joyce, the play might have existed, but not so good a play. Friel utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs when the hero cries and cries when the hero laughs-an alert, ironic, ever-present border guard to keep self-pity from invading pity...
THUNDERBALL. Sean Connery's alter ego, James Bond, is back with a treasury of wishfulfillment and a nickel's worth of plot, something about a couple of stolen atomic bombs...
While he is away from Burbank, the man who tends the headquarters shop is Executive Vice President A. Carl Kotchian, 51, a onetime Price Waterhouse accountant who is virtually Haughton's alter ego. And then there is Lockheed's biggest intangible asset, Vice President (for Advanced Projects) Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, a $114,507-a-year (including bonuses) design genius who bosses the Burbank "skunk works," where Lockheed keeps its surprises a secret. Broadnosed, with piercing blue eyes and a bubbling humor, Johnson resembles a sober W. C. Fields. He decided to become a plane builder at twelve...