Word: ego
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...right arm." Though his title was associate director (he was responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar's bulletproof Cadillac, his meals, his afternoons at the race tracks, and inherited the bulk of his $551,500 estate when Hoover died...
...down upon his culture-hungry audience-seem capable of expressing anything but doubt. Who could guess that behind this aplomb a second Kenneth Clark lurks, irreverent, funny and tortuously complex? Another Part of the Wood, in effect, is an autobiographical ambush brilliantly staged by this Clark against his camera ego...
...sympathies and yet, at the same time, manages to force his grasp upon them. He's ready to insult anyone and everyone who wanders into his cramped little office; he's always willing to play the irritating fool; he struts and scorns in a bald exhibition of inflated ego and pomposity--but, "in point of fact," he's so annoyingly good at it that he can't help but win the appreciation, if not the admiration, of the audience--his audience...
...sympathized with the advice that seeking scapegoats would undermine his desire to rebuild a national consensus on foreign policy. He has bridled at the common belief that his Secretary of State runs U.S. foreign policy, and he has been concerned about Kissinger's often pessimistic moods and ample ego...
...According to Time, "She is the rural neophyte waiting in a subway, a free spirit drinking Greek wine in the moonlight, an organic Earth Mother dispensing fresh bread and herb tea, and the reticent feminist who by trial and error has created the male as well as the female ego." The covers on her albums are kind of like that too: flowers and nature scenes adorn them and she's made to appear especially innocent, as if she had to protect the native viewpoint in her songs...