Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffers from an elephantine ego, Abbie Hoffman [Sept. 15] may have made a mistake by surfacing. While on the lam, he could believe the whole world was focused on him. Now, if people ask at all, the question will be, "Who is Abbie, and who cares...
...addition to analyzing the behavior of groups, such as governments, Abraham examined individual reactions to the arms race. He said many people set up "ego defenses" to ward off unacceptable feelings. These ego defenses can assume many forms ranging from denial to paranoia...
Along with ego defenses, he listed revenge and dehumanization as two psychological factors increasing the likelihood...
...study, Episcopalians tend to have little interest in the Bible as a source of specific moral guidance. Parishioners' approval of a minister depends not so much on his faith as on how well he gets along with people, with heavy emphasis on humility and "lack of ego-strength." This, says the book, seems to "favor incompetence...
Langston reacts to those situations the way you would expect: he laughs them off. Comedy is his bag and the bag is his comedy and as his alter ego might put it, sack-cess is just around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd...