Word: ego
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...Auchincloss's characters must struggle with this problem, one so hopelessly old-fashioned as to seem brand new. His graceful, straightforward narratives, so conventional in form, convey a rare impression: people behaving as if their actions meant something beyond the swamp of ego and the self...
...That was a problem for him," she says. "He has a typical male ego...
...most common theory, however, is that Buettner-Janusch was always slightly off balance. "He wasn't doing it for money, he was doing it for ego. This was just part of his megalomania. He thought he could do anything and get away with anything," says former NYU professor Charles Leslie...
Remar's book Body Worry (you didn't think there was a book in this?) has just been shipped by Viking to bookstores at $17.95 a copy, so I convinced my editors that we should check out this ego trek at the scene of his make-over haven in Freeport. (By the way, Mom, how's the weather back home?) "Let's have dinner," said Remar when we spoke on the phone. "But how about a bike ride first?" I blanched but dutifully headed over to his modest three- bedroom house. Initial impression: Georgia gentleman, soft-spoken, slight drawl, impeccable...
...death in 1959, he reigned as a kind of aesthetic Pope. From his "Vatican," a Tuscan villa known as I Tatti, he issued monographs, criticism and decisions about the authenticity of masterpieces. His verdicts could make or break a market, damage a museum's reputation or deflate amultimillionaire's ego -- and his tax write-offs...