Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless ego...
...changing only one or two words-calling for the "depigeonization" of Paris statues instead of the "decolonization" of French African territories. In the last six weeks, a book called The Court has sold 80,000 copies: it pictures De Gaulle as a bewigged monarch with a king-sized ego lording it over silk-stockinged, fawning courtiers...
Aphorisms Like Petals. The man inside all these textiles has a stupendous ego, and the only characters who come near him in all of fiction are Spenser's Braggadochio and Plautus' Braggart Warrior. "If I didn't have an enormous ego and a monumental pride, how in hell could I be a performer?'' he explains. With something for everybody, he is kind, generous, rude and stubborn, explosive, impulsive, bright and mischievous. He is an outgoing, flamboyant man to whom privacy is sacred. Now he is snapping out wisecracks. Now he is sitting alone, quietly unapproachable...
...Time of Your Life. To nearly everybody's astonishment, he was enormously impressive. Then Producer David Merrick asked him to play the blissfully besotted Uncle Sid in Take Me Along-the musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness. His collision with Merrick, whose ego matches his. was Homeric. "What's the highest straight salary ever paid to a Broad way actor?" asked Gleason. Merrick said he thought it was $5,000 a week. Gleason demanded and got $5,050. He also insisted on an extra dressing room and a chauffeur-driven car. Once rehearsals...
Small Sad Sam (Phil McLean; Versatile). That persistent folk hero of the pop charts, Big Bad John, is cut down to size ("four-foot-six in his stocking feet") and given the ride he so richly deserves. His alter ego, it seems, "slid into town one rainy night/ Runnin' like a dog away from a fight/ He had a pretty big mouth for a guy his size/ And everything he said was a pack of lies . . . Small Sam, chicken...