Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colonel claims to love his battalion, yet be lets personal spite bring dissention, disgrace, and finally tragedy down upon it; he pronounces his affection for his daughter (Susannah York), yet he treats her as a propitiation for his own sins, and when she transgresses the petty rules that his ego has erected, he brings disaster to her emotions and near-disaster to his own career. Jock Sinclair is a study in many evils: drunkenness, cruelty, arrogance, hypocrisy; yet Guinness can keep him nearly lovable, and exact such a show of feeling from the Colonel's collapse at the fade...
...Border. What the Herald got was an undomesticated ego with the habit of erecting insults on the very borderline of libel. When Jack Ricciardi, Boston's commissioner of public works, faced the prospect of appearing as a witness before a U.S. congressional committee (he was never summoned), all Frazier could talk about was Ricciardi's curly hair. "My own view," wrote Frazier, "is that if U.S. Representative John Blatnik has any feeling for beauty, he will first compliment Mr. Ricciardi on his barber. Then, if he has any investigative zeal, he will inquire how many strokes with...
...reports," said Ford Division Assistant General Manager Matthew McLaughlin, "and see 6,200, then 6,500 and 6,800 cars a day. So I begin to tell myself what a good sales executive I am. Then I look at the rest of the industry's sales and my ego is deflated. It's amazing. There hasn't been anything like it since...
Touré has grandiose dreams of leading a Pan-African movement, an ego to match the dreams, and a deep streak of authoritarianism in his makeup-all standard equipment for the modern African leader. His picture is everywhere-on money, stamps, even women's dresses. He brooks no opposition, requires all but the bedridden to show up for "spontaneous" demonstrations, punishing those who do not with "voluntary labor." Even so, recent visitors describe him as a man who has abandoned his dogmatic Marxism for pragmatism. Western diplomats are hopeful that Touré had enough of a Communist dose...
...including 17 bellboys available, night and day, to carry messages across the city by hand, 24 telephone operators, two tennis pros, and one fulltime lifeguard, all dedicated to the proposition that guests are people with names, not just keys. Explains Owner Silberstein: "Every guest wants to be recognized. The ego of man is the same throughout the world. We have to cater to the whims of our guests...