Word: ego
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When the forum opened for questins from the audience, participants asked about Roosevelt’s ego and political acumen and how he would function in today’s media-driven world...
...Astaire, when asked who his favorite partner was (people wanted him to say Ginger, and he didn?t), would declare that it was... Kelly. Kelly?s favorite may have been himself. He was his own partner (and nemesis) in the "alter ego" number from "Cover Girl." He expressed both love and self-love - the potent giddiness of feeling that surge of ardor, ? etc. in "Singin? in the Rain." He danced with a mop in "Thousands Cheer," and he sometimes led his leading ladies the same way. A different leading lady, often a movie ingenue, in almost every picture: Leslie Caron...
...being, then, models of some of the more mysterious and difficult to explain aspects of human consciousness like that offered by Frattaroli in his “soul,” (another example would be Freud’s “id,” “ego,” and “superego,”) can serve quite a useful purpose in treating psychopathology—for they provide an abstract and working, if crude and incomplete, model of what we cannot yet understand in any other fashion...
...Gates of Janus. Nor will they find many insights in his lengthy double-speak. Perhaps the real surprise about this book, first published late last year, is that it has sold enough copies to warrant a reprint. Brady holds that the "serial killer is ... your alter ego, that facet of character you strive so hard to conceal and repress." He may believe it; but readers of this ugly, unpersuasive book certainly...
...knew her mind and needs well enough to know that she would always feel this way.” While Watson’s account seeks to inspire compassion for himself as a “jilted” lover, he seems to suffer more from a bruised ego than from a broken heart. The amount of detail he presents is almost excruciating. The relationship occurred nearly five decades ago. Surely, he could have moved...