Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows. He did not interview Adenauer (though he notes later that der Alte "will see almost anybody") and his sketch of "this tenacious old gentleman" seems curiously flimsy. On the other hand, he vividly pictures De Gaulle-whom he interviewed before the return to power-as "gnarled with ego" and "positively lunar," yet possessed of a curious humility that prompted him to answer, in longhand, some 5,000 letters on his handling of the 1960 Algerian crisis. Gunther is even more successful with the elusive personality of Harold Macmillan, a fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted...
Died. Mary Landon Baker, 61, eccentric altar ego, tabloid-titillating ''shy bride" of the 1920's, who left Millionaire Fiancé Alister McCormick at the Chicago church three times in 1922, spurned all the rest of her claimed 65 proposals from an Almanach de Gotha of suitors, made even her well-heeled father "fed up to the limit with Mary's caprices"; in London...
...sample hypothesis that the new interviews are expected to support is this: a boy who has a family genuinely interested in what he does-one that supports him but does not pressure him--is likely to develop strong ego qualities, and be willing to gamble intellectually. Glimp says, "A fellow with the ability to be a free wheeler--to do things he's not entirely sure of--ought to be at Harvard. The country needs him, and maybe Harvard trains this type better than others...
...railed against "ugliness and the complete baffling sterility of existence as sold to you." His only weapon was a Forest Primeval complex, the traditional romantic battle cry of back to nature. The sickness of the romantic ego, and Lowry had this sickness, is to turn escape into flight, the quest for solitude into a fascination with oblivion, to fall "half in love with easeful death...
...Ursula Niebuhr, wife of Reinhold Niebuhr, will join the Institute staff as a Research Fellow. She plans to study some traditional respects of religion from the viewpoint of ego psychology...