Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wagnerian roles. Put in the U.S., it means that Thomas is the first and most notable of what appears to be a new stable of American heldentenors: men with the projection of a foghorn, the endurance of a marathon cyclist and the range of an ICBM. Most have an ego to match...
...ideas seriously. Writes Critic Leslie Fiedler, 48: "Not only do they reject the Socratic adage that the unexamined life is not worth living, since for them precisely the unexamined life is the only one worth enduring at all. But they also abjure the Freudian one: 'Where id was, ego shall be,' since for them the true rallying cry is, 'Let id prevail over ego, impulse over order'-or 'Freud is a fink...
Inevitably, the job lost some of its ego-tingling excitement in Johnson's White House. Whereas Kennedy had sometimes bypassed his Cabinet members if he felt it would speed a decision, Johnson punctiliously works through the chain of command, and has increasingly sought the advice of Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara on foreign policy. However, despite columnists' occasional claims that the President and Bundy could not get along, the two seldom disagreed on major decisions. Bundy was picked by Johnson to go on a fact-finding mission to Saigon last year, was later dispatched to the Dominican Republic...
Notre Dame Law School Dean Jo seph O'Meara offered another way out. In a recent comment on Jacobellis, O'Meara urged the court to restore local option in obscenity cases and "recognize the jury as the authentic alter ego of the community, reflecting its morals and mores more truly than even the wisest of judges...
...India, as she is this week, Lady Jackson never seems to lose her ability to think in panoramic terms about mankind. This is in part the reason she can become almost lived on the subject of nationalism. "It's the sickness of the world -- the madness of the ego, whether private or national. Once we've solved this, the rest falls into place. And nationalism is such a bore, isn't it? I tell you, when I hear young people talk about how foolish it is, I feel there's hope yet. After al, isn't mankind -- the world -- really...