Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Philosophy 192, with mega-professors Robert Nozick, Alan M. Dershowitz, and Stephen Jay Gould has bee variously referred to as "Thinking about Thinking" (the course's official title). "Talking about Talking." and even "Egos on Ego...
...means has Snowden let his fame get him nervous. Just as strongly as he holds his ego in check, Snowden does not act awed on the court as he does off it. He plays like there is no reason to worry, as if he was just having...
When I joined The Crimson, the comp posters advertised "make a difference." I was somewhat disturbed to see new comp posters reading "make headlines." The new appeal is to the ego; the old appeal was to the moral sense. I hope this change doesn't mean much; I know that in the time I've been reading the paper, The Crimson has, in addition to making headlines, made a difference...
...takes patience, a virtue that Mark Salzman demonstrated in Iron and Silk, a 1986 account of the author's experiences in China. Now Salzman brings East and West together in The Soloist (Random House; 184 pages; $19), a novel that counterpoints Occidental self-consciousness against Oriental ego transcendence. The dissonance is played out at a murder trial where Reinhart is a juror. There is no doubt that the young man in the dock has killed his Zen instructor. He says he beat him to death after hearing a parable that equated freedom with the killing of authority figures. The question...
Either way, the eventual winner of Paramount will probably have paid an astonishingly high "ego premium" to secure the prize. That premium has been variously estimated at somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion more than Paramount is really worth...