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...Foreign Secretary three times. He won an outpouring of public respect by resigning that post when he disagreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's prewar policies. He gained further acclaim under Winston Churchill-serving, in effect, as Britain's wartime chief of staff, Churchill's alter ego and, as Oxford Historian Michael Howard puts it, "the loyal adjutant who skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when it came Eden's turn to serve as Prime Minister, he had perhaps...
When his own ego is sated, Welles rolls on with self-indulgence to spare, he introduces into F for Fake, for no apparent reason, a young Hungarian protegee named Oja Kodar. Not only a svelte, swarthy beauty, he assures us, but a major new talent: brilliant, sophisticated, articulate. Welles then proceeds to regale himself with two quarter-hour sequences of Kodar parading her proportions around Parisien, and then Hungarian streets...
...deal stuck. As a portrait of Daley beamed benevolently down on them, the aldermen decorously voted for the agreed-upon candidates. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, who had yielded his finance committee post to Frost, hailed the selection process. "We all came to gether and put aside personal ambitions and ego," said Vrdolyak, who is the other Croatian on the city council. "I myself lost three jobs last week...
...raise him to the White House?carry potential dangers. He does not know the Federal Government or the pressures it creates. He does not really know the politicians whom he will need to help him run the country, and it is far from clear how his temper and his ego will stand up under probable battles with Congress, the clamorous interest groups and the press...
...PARTIE DE PLAISIR. Claude Chabrol's devastating study of a common-law marriage breaking up, with particular attention paid to the problems of self-absorption and the childishness of the male ego. Psychologically shrewd, dramatically stunning, it is a masterful cautionary tale...