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When Florence suggested that a document might be revived and put back in circulation, he met opposition from people who were afraid of losing their "classification prerogatives." While it is an "ego thing" to stamp secret on a document, it is even more of a thrill to label it top secret. Says Florence: "Classification has become as automatic as putting a period after a sentence. Individuals at all echelons in the department practice classification as a way of life." It is an expensive practice, too. Florence estimates that it costs the Government millions of dollars a year for safes, fireproof...
...trustees of San Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...
...consequence of heroism, all too often, is an ego-rending compulsion to continue in a larger-than-life role, a task at which few succeed. Murphy was no exception. Faced with the need to translate acts of valor into a lifetime of virtue, he had nowhere to go but down. When his body was found last week in the crash of a light plane outside Roanoke, Va., Murphy, 46, left behind a promise that had dissolved unheroically into business failures, run-ins with the law and forgettable parts in forgettable movies...
...Jackie, a victim who saw it all in her late teens: "Sometimes I wish I was back in kindergarten," she told Smith. "It used to be like that here when I first came-people giving away flowers, sharing their food. Now it's turned into a big ego trip, nobody smiling or sharing...
WITH all his activity in the outside world, Professor Kissinger was very much a man unto himself. He saw very little of students, and much of his attachment to teaching seems to have sprung from the simple joy of intellectual exchange, the ego-feeding process of articulate, witty repartee. He taught one lecture course for undergraduates, contributed to a graduate seminar on Western Europe, and conducted another seminar on defense policy, full of government employees who were studying at Harvard and studded with guest speakers from the highest ranks of government. One Faculty member later called Kissinger's seminar "essentially...