Word: ego
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...Thus, crucial to Williams's conception of the King phenomenon is the growth of Martin Luther King's awareness and sense of responsibility which together with his personal courage made him the man and the figure which the white press and his own ego had once convinced him he had been from the beginning...
King was never to be an effective organizer. His ego was too large to prevent him from feeling that organization would undermine his authority, and being, at root, the insecure child of a frustrated, demanding father, he lacked the confidence and grace that would have eliminated the need for the yes-men who formed what was always more his court than his kingdom. Finally and most damagingly of all, his grasp of the world beyond the orb of the Southern black middle class was imperfect to the point of terminal misconstruction. Thus as Williams quotes Joanne Grant, a black reporter...
...Warhol to create the legendary, shifting entourage of drag queens, raucous juvenile models and human parrot fish who, entering a room in a cloud of sequins and patchouli, take the strain of flamboyancy off the Master's back. Warhol's id vanishes behind his circus as his ego does behind his paintings...
...first to applaud progress if it is beneficial and wise; however, I do not like the direction the New Genetics is taking. Scientists should not start tampering with man, regardless of how high their intentions are. Any scientist who harbors a desire to be God has an astronomical ego and is to be greatly feared and watched...
...Norman Mailer battling a phalanx of feminists led by Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch). As the distinctively distaff heckling mounted, Mailer shouted, "I'm not going to sit here and let you harridans harangue me." Mailer's was not the only maimed male ego. When asked by hapless Critic Anatole Broyard to spell out what the liberated woman wants, Greer snapped: "Whatever it is we're asking for, honey...