Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conductor Davis, who will make his first appearance in the U.S. next December with the Minneapolis Symphony, seems to lack only one major podium qualification: a king-sized ego. Not long ago, at the completion of a concert in London's Royal Festival Hall, Davis won an ovation from the audience. He looked at his orchestra, flabbergasted. "This is ridiculous!" said he, and left the stage...
...Thought of Power. The passion for public anonymity is readily understandable at the individual level. Every alcoholic needs pals on whom he can lean for help, and whom he can help to bolster his own ego. At the organizational level, the anonymity is more complex. Bill W., a forceful speaker with a cutting wit, explains: "Identification leads to power drives. The thought of power is one reason we were drunks in the first place. A.A. takes no denominational, political or economic stands. It stays out of controversy. We do not claim that anonymity is a virtue. Rather...
...year later, he was dead of a heart ailment. Dr. Fishbein had already written his obituary: "Centuries to come may never produce again such blatancy, such fertility of imagination or such ego...
...pathologically egotistical. At San Quentin, he greeted one of his lawyers-who arrived an hour late for an appointment after winning another legal delay-with a snarling "Where have you been, you son of a bitch?" Said a former Los Angeles plainclothesman who got to know him well: "His ego is so apparent that it almost reaches out and grabs you by the throat...
...Deathwatch. At any time during the past few years Caryl Chessman might have saved his life by appealing to the Governor of California to exercise executive clemency and commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.**** But Chessman's prickly, demanding ego stands in the way. "Caryl Chessman has not sought executive clemency from me," said Governor Brown last October. "To the contrary, he has declared that he seeks only vindication. This I cannot give him. The evidence of his guilt is overwhelming . . . His attitude has been one of steadfast arrogance and contempt." But with his mail running...