Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelfth book, British Novelist Doris Lessing copes with not just one literary chestnut but a whole treeful: the sexual odyssey of a bachelor girl, the political disillusionment of a onetime Communist, the maladjustment of the overeducated modern woman. She succeeds in creating a remarkable heroine (possibly her alter ego) who somehow manages believably to combine the qualities of Kitty Foyle, Arthur Koestler and Simone de Beauvoir. Like Mrs. Lessing, Heroine Anna Wulf is a divorced writer who explains, in four different notebooks, why she is too troubled to write. Her black notebook looks back to an African experience that...
...abused. A few lecturers are unprepared and disorganized. Some, with the power of hypnotic verbalization, manage to hold their audiences through sheer personality rather than because they have anything important to say. And an insecure professor with psychological problems can misuse the lecture to bolster his ego...
Carnejoux is the alter ego of Novelist Claude Mauriac, son of Francois Mauriac...
...Changing Name Sir: The writer who penned "Melting the Pot"[March 23] deserves plaudits for his definitive coverage of the commercial alter ego...
...Sydow), all on vacation on an isolated Baltic island. The daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like a rabbit, before the great snake of the unconscious...