Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arch Oboler, the nicest thing about winning a prize is making the acceptance speech. In his twelve years of radio writing, he has done plenty of both. But unlike his writing (Alter Ego, Free World Theater, etc.), Oboler's speeches seldom please radio. In Oklahoma City, in a talk he titled "Bughum" ("humbug, backwards"), Arch paid his respects to radio...
...dream after the operation, "I was talking to President Roosevelt ... I advised him to make the same speech he had made a year ago. . . . [That was] a grandiose idea ... a compensatory mechanism at a time when my ego was crushed. It signified ... a healthy part of my personality immunizing me against anxious anticipation...
...Freud's theory that the sick man withdraws his libido back upon his own ego, Dr. Wertham says: "My libido certainly was withdrawn . . . my interest decidedly restricted [to] my immediate situation...
...lively, witty gags for ammunition, State of the Union shoots at a good many targets-narrow nationalism, diehards, politicos of both parties, Labor's internal squabbles, power politics and smoke-filled rooms, a lazy electorate. But it has its fun with its upstanding hero too. Grant Matthews has ego as well as earnestness; he wobbles as well as walks chalk. Involved with a lady newspaper publisher, he has to hurry back, as a prospective candidate, to the wife who still loves him. Cleverer and stronger-minded than he is, Mary Matthews, like Maggie Shand in Barrie's What...
...behest of this alter ego, the girl kills her fiance. Then she goes toward the chair almost eagerly, in her desire to liquidate her inner devil-while the lawyer-lover, an ingenious psychiatrist (Edmund Gwenn), and the governor of the state stand by, wondering what to do. The psychiatrist finally does plenty...