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...this point mastered the technical problems in projecting his tense, lonely, anguished voice. As a young man he wrote impeccable poems that sounded just like Yeats. In his 40s he established his own sound in the loose series of hundreds of "dream songs" in which an alter ego named Henry spoke the author's mind in slangy, staccato rhythms. Henry appears in some of this collection, but Berryman had moved away from songs to these final, racked prayers...
Occasionally a sports book comes along that tries to put sports in a proper perspective rather than gratifying an athlete's ego and pocketbook. Paper Lion is, perhaps, one of the only intelligent, perceptive ones I can think of, Joseph Durso's The All-American Dollar-The Big Business of Sports, qualifies as another. Although Durso, a well-respected sports journalist for the New York Times, fails to destroy the sports myth or attack with much zest, he often offers an insight into sport as a capitalistic, cut throat enterprise, controlled by television, run by businessmen in the front office...
...impulse to murder seems to be universal, but the reasons that men and women yield to it are as varied and mysterious as human history. To most psychiatrists, murder usually implies a defect in the killer's ego. Sometimes, of course, the motive appears to be nothing more complicated than the desire for material gain. In family murders, a frequent motive is the killer's conviction that no one, not even his wife, understands him. Says Psychiatrist Frederick Melges: "He may expect empathy without communicating his feelings. Paradoxically, attempts at communication may lead to the discovery that...
What is really at stake is not so much money as ego and the traditional order of things. The owners are used to having their own way and the hired help has only lately begun to test its muscle at collective bargaining. It was a called strike that surprised everyone, and it may possibly be settled before the first ball is due to be tossed out this week...
...compensate for the unstimulating athletic program, Rosenberger led "a pretty good" social life freshman year. "It was an ego trip," he said, "bringing girls over and performing in front of them by getting drunk...