Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody fought to save his own skin: the English to save England, De Gaulle to save France-his alter ego. I can see nothing reprehensible today in his desire not to let himself and the French be pasteurized, sterilized and homogenized. Anyway, that's the way they feel about...
...easy chair and into his hiking boots. A California radio announcer shunned the forced marches, made plans instead for a "restathon," vowing he would attempt 20 nonstop hours in the sack. Even psychiatrists got into the act. In San Francisco one shrugged that the hikers were merely seeking "ego boosters." "The one who does it can look down contemptuously on the one who can't," said he, looking down even more contemptuously...
...going to be an elevation: we're going down--down into the depths of the heart. I want to find a cranny in you that I can crawl through. That is the function of the poet: to create an aperture. The poet must be violent; he must crack the ego and reach through, or he is nothing. When something does crack the ego, for one appalling moment"--he paused--"we apprehend...
...Rothschild's barbershop in Beverly Hills, says his hairpiece trade has gone up at least 200% in just the past year. "It used to be men of 50 or 60 who would come in," says Mandel. "Now it is men of 30 or 35. It's part ego and part it's just annoying to be bald." Though show biz types like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are still leaders in the wiggy set, "ordinary people are going in for the same routine," says Mandel. In San Antonio, whose wig merchants claim the sale of more hairpieces...
...center will not be is harsh or cold. In taking the road to Xanadu, Yamasaki has turned office buildings, schools, churches and banks into gentle pleasure palaces that are marvelously generous in spirit. He shuns monuments. He is suspicious even of masterpieces, which he feels often better serve the ego of their creators than the well-being of those who use them. He may have committed some architectural heresies, but if he has, it is largely because he is a humanist with enormously appealing aspirations. He wants his buildings to be more than imposing settings for assorted clusters of humanity...