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...colored pages or borders, boxed stories and charts, regular use of cartoon illustrations, an eye-catching mixture of white space and type. After this 26-hour ordeal, Prouvost immediately approved the design and Glaser's exhausted co-workers toasted him with champagne. "It was," says Glaser, "a real ego trip...
...much esoteric research? Hanslin senses that property buyers now want to control their immediate environment, and he suspects that this "ego approach" will supplant the "hedonism communities" of recent years. Whether this is true is largely speculation, but Hanslin likes to speculate. "There is so much room for improvement in the residential area," says he. "There are so damn many challenges everywhere...
...Each, in his way, is a somewhat enigmatic character. Despite moments of humor, Nixon remains his intense, somewhat rigid self, even with Kissinger. Both men have their private lives, and Kissinger is not on the list (a short one) of the President's intimate friends. For all his outer ego, his fierce driving of subordinates and his international celebrity, Kissinger has a servant's heart for Nixon when it comes to power and ideas. He has been willing to subject himself to the scorn of his academic peers (after the Cambodian invasion) and serve the President with a total loyalty...
...About this point," says one White House source, "it was high noon in the old West Wing. At least a half dozen people who matter here in the White House hit the ceiling when they read that story. They called it the biggest ego trip any one had ever taken." Soon afterward, at press briefings, Ziegler pointedly and repeatedly emphasized that the President was "giving instructions" to Kissinger about the Paris negotiations, deflating any suggestion that Kissinger was a diplomatic Destry. Since then, Kissinger seems deliberately to have kept a very low profile ? although that might have reflected discouragement...
...Needleman's view, the optimism of modern science created instead a kind of psychological geocentrism, which misled man into believing that he could understand all reality at an ordinary level of consciousness. Earth was no longer to be at the center of the universe, but man's ego was. Now this attitude, too, has been dislodged by the wars and other depredations of the present century. The new surge of wonder that is at least partly the work of the Apollos provides men with an opportunity to recapture at last a true sense of their place...