Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then I say, maybe it is only hatred in Norman's chest. Maybe it is only a stockpile of frustration--the frustration of an ego that grows hungrier with every feeding, of a heterosexual in an era of pan-sexuality; frustration with language too meager to ciutch at ideas his mind is shaping, with mind too meager to clutch at ideas he'd like to shape, with creative ambitions that far exceed what greatness he can hope to claim, with material that will not yield its secrets, like rocky soil intractable to a battered plough...
...Brown once dared to dream of fame-and was, inevitably, squelched by a woman. That was 14 years ago, soon after the comic strip first appeared. This week our editors at last have news for Patty and all the other put-down artists who forever undermine Charlie's ego. Charlie indeed makes the cover. It is his due. The Peanuts chronicle has become world famous, and its harried nonhero is beloved by all who follow his tribulations...
East Asia Program: Typically Western overindulgence of the ego...
...ruthlessly competitive admissions procedure, noting that "The 'tigers' who survive are forcing the college to change its approach." In Look Magazine, Andrew T. Weil tells of the drug-taking set who formed a "Transcendental community where they could maintain a level of experience which cuts beyond routine ego and social games," noting also that "there were stories of students using hallucinogens for seductions, both heterosexual and homosexual." But it was The New Yorker and Gent magazine that did the most to refurbish my faith in the glamor and excitement of life at Harvard...
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. This collection shows the poet's wit, shrewdness, ego-and also the courage that saw him through an unrelenting succession of painful family tragedies...