Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kishlansky said textbook writing requires the discipline to stick to commercial plans, the formation of a specific writing plan and the willingness to set one's ego aside in order to work with others...
Instead, the letter's purpose appears simply to massage Harvard's ego and spin the challenges facing the Administration in the most favorable light. When asked in an interview if the letter were not some kind of public relations ploy, the president rolled his eyes and said, "You know me better than that by now. It's not part of a public relations blitz, I promise you that, absolutely not. It's not me, it's not my nature...
...demonstration as a badly veiled attempt on Farrakhan's part to secure his position as the spiritual and political leader of the black community. The Million-Man March, these critics would explain, has little to do with the American black community and everything to do with Farrakhan's ego and need for public approval...
...process, senior quarterback Joe Moorhead, a polite, soft-spoken chap from Pittsburgh, Penn., had picked the Crimson apart, racking up nearly 250 passing yards in the second half and doing more damage to Harvard's collective ego than anyone could imagine...
...appears to have had a role in the sentimental education of her sister Ettie. (Since Ettie cut many pages from Florine's diaries after her death, one cannot be sure.) Florine's portrait of Duchamp in an armchair, turning a slender crank that raises his invented feminine alter ego Rrose Selavy into the air, is one of the most stylish tributes offered by one American artist to another...