Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ego in a film biography of Sigmund Freud, Director John (The Misfits) Huston modestly admitted that the work "has given me a new insight into the minds of some of the stars I have directed." Pressed for an example. Huston promptly picked on thrice-married Marilyn Monroe. "I think her big handicap is that she is unable to live up to her sex symbol status in real life. In fact, I don't think she really cares very much about...
...over again when his wife comes in. If the wife comes in first, many salesmen try to sell her on the car's color and upholstery, quoting her a price considerably above their rock-bottom offer. When the husband comes in later, they boost his ego by letting him force the price down, so he can show his mate that he is the sharp bargainer in the family...
Nevertheless, he maintained, tragedy and comedy have the same goal--self-knowledge--and they use the same means to reach it. "In comedy the ego takes just as terrible a beating as in tragedy, even though knaves and fools are cut down, and not a hero." Since people in the audience can't identify themselves with the knaves and fools, they identify themselves with the author, he claimed...
Likewise, books such as The Organization Man depict the business world as a most unappetizing set of soul-sellings (how many students have read The Academic Marketplace?). Galbraith describes the businessman as occasionally impotent and occasionally interested in creating an attractive corporate image to bolster his ego, but seldom controlling his own destiny. In terms of attitudes like these, it is more comprehensible that undergraduates should regard the National Merit Scholarship program as a sort of apologia by businessmen who regret their selling out to the non-intellectual world...
Satry is a somnambule. one of those fantasy girls who sleepwalk into the hero's bed on an acquaintance of about half an hour. As he watches her puttering blissfully about the kitchen, and serving wine with meals, and unobtrusively bolstering his male ego by asking him what time it is, Vangel comes to realize that Europeans Know How To Live. When he is later so masculine as to give Satry two or three solid slaps in the face, he suddenly realizes that he has something to live...