Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Short List, the hero has declined from early literary promise into that well-padded asylum for mediocrity-BBC journalism. He decides to seduce Barbara Coles, a brilliant young stage designer. But it is a dreadful victory-an ego-shriveling comeuppance which Barbara achieves by 1) matching his rake's cold heart with cool and uncommitted bedroom expertise of her own, and 2) contemptuously letting him know that she considers him a vulgar interloper in her world of uncompromised talent...
...this crazy "war" goes on, in the name of sport, because the sporting-goods, beer and motel interests encourage the ignorant male ego to drive into the countryside and pick off our wild birds as they rise from nests at dawn...
Piano Treasures." He also recorded the likes of Ravel, Debussy and Mahler long before they had gained popular acceptance, tolerating Debussy's monumental ego ("There have been produced so far in this world two great musicians," Debussy once told him, "Beethoven and me."), encouraging timid players such as Edvard Grieg, whose embarrassment at the keyboard often reduced him to hopeless laughter. In the years before the vogue of the phonograph silenced his studios, Welte's legacy included performances by more than 100 pianists and composers...
...simplest form, machismo is the gaudy bravado of the bullfighter, the outdoor he-manliness of the gaucho, the straightforward heterosexuality of the playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength, and heroic revolutionaries into ruthless tyrants. Says the Mexican poet Octavio Paz: "One word sums up the aggressiveness, insensitivity, invulnerability and other attributes of the macho: power. It is force without discipline or any notion of order; arbitrary power...
...dented ego that it passed...