Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vice Admiral James Stockdale ("a hero's hero"), and only vaguely alluded to his tough economic recovery plan. As in the initial phase of his campaign, Perot played most heavily on his status as a nonpolitician: "The people want a new political climate where the system does not attract ego-driven, power-hungry people." Whether or not he could fairly exclude himself from that category, his statement was at least in keeping with the season's rhetoric...
...Thursday, he insisted that he was getting back in because "the volunteers in all 50 states have asked me." Betraying a striking ignorance of how he is now perceived by the general public, he later said, "The people want a new political climate, where the system does not attract ego-driven, power-hungry people." Perot's brief appearance before the press gave his supporters little reason for optimism. His brusque handling of a few questions -- "Just have fun, get raises and bonuses, play gotcha. I don't care," he snapped at reporters -- revealed that the distemper that drove him from...
...time I came to college, my fragile ego was already enmeshed in my identity as a writer. But eventually, illusions of grandeur succumbed to enormous frustration. My friends' writing overwhelmed me. I spent anguished hours staring at a computer screen. Expos assignments were tortuous. Even news stories at The Crimson took me hours...
...time I came to college, my fragile ego was already enmeshed in my identity as a writer. But eventually, illusions of grandeur succumbed to enormous frustration. My friends' wiring overwhelmed me. I spend anguished hours staring at a computer screen. Expos assignments were tortuous. Even news stories at The Crimson took me hours...
King has produced five books about himself, an autobiographical record that testifies both to his marketability and his storytelling gifts -- as well as to his ego. In his first book, published 10 years ago, before he had his national TV show, he wrote, "When I'm 58, I would like to have a newspaper column and be doing a one-hour radio interview show and a television talk show on a regular basis." Except that his radio show is three hours, those ambitions were fulfilled exactly...