Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear set in. I used those emotions to get back to the person I was before all the glamour and notoriety. Rocky is a once-in-a-lifetime coming together of self and character." But now that they are together, Stallone realizes he may never leave his alter ego entirely behind. "I'm in a shell that will never incubate to the point of hatching, and I have finally accepted that fact," he says...
...there an element of opportunism in this?" A tough question, but fair: the implied accusation is Will's own. Donaldson: "There are a lot of people, Dr. Graham, who are saying that you are not testifying for God, but you are testifying only for the ego of Billy Graham. How do you respond to that?" Note the lack of any named source, just "a lot of people." Later: "Dr. Graham, why not preach here at home? Aren't there people in the United States who need your ministry?" Graham: "That's where I spend...
...inauguration of Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA). Henry A. Kissinger '50, then Secretary of State, directed the new research group "to rebuild the stock of intellectual capital on issues of international security--which, of course. I have exhausted in the past decade "Kissinger's famed ego notwithstanding, the CSIA has emerged as a leading source of academic theory and public policy in a period of increasing concern over nuclear arms reduction...
...usually follow certain forms; I wish to discuss Harvard in a grand and over broad manner, and hence must resort to the guise of review books that do the same. They, however, will be put down with a few snide and summary remarks, and I will then take my ego out for a stroll of some length...
...condition, The merely private or tribal venture (stealing herds, fetching Helen from Troy) burgeoned into dense public spectacles, whole civilizations on the march The issues came to be territory or wealth or power or security or sometimes some thing darker and more confused: vast error (World War I), vast ego and evil (World...