Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regan's strong ego and aggressive style have been coupled at the Treasury Department with a loyalty to the President that borders on being sycophantic. Critics complain that Regan is a mere cheerleader, with no strong policy beliefs of his own. At the same time, he has shown an outsize concern with turf and prerogatives. Predicts one of his former colleagues: "He'll try to do it all himself. He can't stand sharing the limelight." That could mean that Regan will tend to keep other advisers away from the President. At worst, eager-to-please Regan could wind...
...willing to go right to the edge of scruple to reach his goals. He once described himself as both shy and ruthless. Over the years he has perfected a calculating public modesty, down-playing himself about, say, his mediocre college grades. But behind the self-deprecation is a huge ego and a steely inner toughness. Everything Ueberroth does has a purpose. He is a creative energizer of people, a man unafraid to make unpopular decisions, a natural teacher and leader...
...eight-footer, not to win the grand slam, not even to clinch a 20th major championship, but to publicize a condominium development in Arizona at a made-for-TV golf tournament. Ben Hogan would never have wet his pants over such a glory, but there are levels of ego in this. When Bjorn Borg slipped merely to second, ahead of everyone but John McEnroe, Borg had to go. Eleven years removed from his No. 1 rating, Ilie Nastase pursues the tournament allures as profanely as ever, but now he adjourns to the disco after the second round. People begin...
...With the ego stalled in narcissistic confusion and therapy too garbled to help, reality fades quickly. An economy based on management and consumption rather than on production and entrepeneurism intensifies the problem. As workers, citizens know that a good image is more important than real work. As consumers, they are programmed to define themselves in terms of ever-changing products and commodities; they lose their sense of a permanent identity and of their lives as a narrative in the public world Lasch observes that...
THOUGH THE Salkinds may not have realized it at the time, finding Reeve was a luckier break than getting the Newmans. Almost the perfect physical match for a Superman, he could project the boyish charm that made both the ego-busting muscleman and the nebbish newsman palatable and credible. Underneath the red and blue Reeve kept enough of the sly midwestern farm boy to make Superman's schizophrenic life a myth rooted in the American ideals of silent strength and self-effacing mannerisms. None of the Superman films ever fully descended into campy self-parody, because Reeve made...