Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science school, Dr. Snyder said, the student usualy chooses externalization as an ego defense, and fights back against the professor who has given him a "raw deal" by working harder. As a result, his grades usually improve...
...glossy magazine ("Society's largest journal for the most elegant group") that claims 1,800,000 readers, mostly under the dryer, the club is owned by Madame's genial Editor Heinz Weigt, 51, a barber's son who turned from shaves and facials to champagne and ego massage. The club's chief aim is to make the new tycoons feel socially accepted-if only by other new tycoons. Nevertheless, for dues of $7.50, as a West German magazine delicately pointed out, "one does not have to be rich to belong. It is enough if one sufficiently...
Died. Harvey Slocum, 75. tough-talking U.S. engineer who bossed the construction of India's giant (740 ft. high) and all-but-completed Bhakra Dam, a self-educated ex-laborer who helped build Hoover and Grand Coulee dams and whose overriding ego-he called himself "the best damn dam builder in the world" -was matched only by his professional skill; of a heart attack; in Nangal, India...
...Freedom League during its struggle to win freedom from the British, and served as the government's top press officer, winning high marks from newsmen for his honesty and knowledgeability. In 1953, when U Nu was Prime Minister, U Thant became his private secretary, speechwriter and alter ego...
Salinger fans have filled the resultant vacuum with splendid imagination. The author apparently listens now and then behind his locked door, because in Seymour, an Introduction, his fictional alter ego refers to "poignant get-well-soon notes from old readers of mine who have somewhere picked up the bogus information that I spend six months of the year in a Buddhist monastery and the other six in a mental institution." One source of bogus information is the author himself; in the jacket blurb for Franny and Zooey, which he wrote himself, he says with coy fraudulence that "I live...