Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towering ego and a deep awareness of everything going on around you" are necessary ingredients for success in journalism, freelance writer Jeff Bradley advised last night in a Winthrop House writing seminar...
...Broader added that these inspired to make it a career should "do it while you're young and have nothing to risk but your ego...
...speech at an Australian arts festival, a writer uses up his youthful material and finds himself, though empty, still posed in his role. "It is then that he dies as a writer and becomes an intercultural object merely," said Updike, "or is born again, by resubmitting his ego, as it were, to fresh drafts of experience and refined operations of his mind." Updike seems to have put himself through a succession of such regenerations and, in the process, has not only sustained his professional standing but deepened and enriched his talent...
Supremely confident in his own talent, he often pauses to massage his own ego. He says that he is rereading, with immense enjoyment, his own "excellent autobiography," Present Indicative. He views with admiration his newest play, telling himself that "it is a truly wonderful gift, my natural and trained gift for dialogue." When one of his plays is panned on Broadway, he retorts: "It cannot be anything but personal. No one in their sane senses could say the lyrics and music of The Girl Who Came to Supper were not good. They are good. Very good indeed...
...from teaching but from reading people like Mortimer Adler. If the experts would work in a high school for two years, assuming all duties from supervising dances to hall duty, then their pronouncements might be considered important. They need to emerge from the dark ages of academic theory and ego to the realities of contemporary education...