Word: ego
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...route to Miami, I was already bothered by the noisy insufficiencies of my own world. At the airport my sleepy irritation was jarred by a platinum wig, perched on a mannequin head, that watched dumbly while its brunette alter-ego harangued a porter. I drove through Miami Beach to indulge myself in a deluge of costumes and Cadillacs. Later, in Palm Beach, Harold's grocery truck (of Southampton, L.I., and Palm Beach) sped by advertising pheasant and fresh caviar. At Hamburger Haven I was handed hamburgers by a waiter in a cashmere sweater and Gucci shoes (no socks). In front...
...basic fact that the weight of orthodox, conservative German militarism has always been for a shared hegemony, with Russia, over Europe. Only the grandiose ego of Hitler, who tried to deprive his fellow conspirator, Russia, of its share of the loot, led him to fight the Soviets against the plan and advice of his general staff. Germany and Russia have been the top culprits in the bloodletting of the past 50 years. It is naive to think that their men of power want peace for the sake of peace...
...which the family forms the central strands. Children must be safeguarded and reared, and a continuity of values preserved. This is what society is about, and it provides order and sustenance for the vast community of men and women who cannot fly, breathe, or even live in the ego-rarefied air of the master artists and the lone eagles. Daedalus flew but Icarus fell-so it is with Ibsen and his Nora...
...lived one of the most exciting, financially successful and creative lives of the rock era. But what sticks in his mind today is not the joy of the pop classics he wrote with Paul McCartney, but the misery that fame brought him, as well as the suppression of ego required by working in the group. It was Paul McCartney who quit the Beatles last spring and who is now formally seeking to dissolve the group in a London court. The only thing Lennon regrets about that, or so he says in a current two-part interview in Rolling Stone magazine...
...filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread. In the end, Margaret affirms the reality of her existence in another pregnancy-man's eternal solution to fear of mortality. The reader rejoices that unto them a child will be born-and unto Margaret, a whole new set of ego building fantasies...