Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alcoholics Are Sick. "Fundamentally," writes Baltimore's Dr. Horace K. Richardson, "the alcoholic is sick in his ego." If the ego is weakened in childhood, a neurotic, a hypochondriac, an alcoholic or a drug addict may result. Because of ego weakness, the average alcoholic lacks feelings of independence and power. "In alcohol he has discovered an easy, temporary and always obtainable method of pulling down the shade between himself and the threatening world of cold, hard, painful facts about...
...special assistant and adviser to the President of the United States." Actually, his job is much more complex. It is a unique position in the U.S. Government. Specifically it calls for the qualities of a secretary, expediter, administrator, errand boy, good listener, executive, idea man, boon companion, and alter ego. There is no law covering it, the occupant need not be confirmed by Congress, he is responsible to no one except the President, and he can make the job what he will. When Hopkins quits (unlikely) or dies, the job will vanish...
...inhibitions, faults and weaknesses, separates itself from his creative achievements. Not always or forever does the genius completely fill the frame of his creation. Frequently it happens that the great work of a genius continues to develop, of its own vitality and according to its own laws, while the ego of its creator collapses and degenerates. In other words, the creation of the genius has become independent of himself and his earthly personality...
...days of old it was customary to rename the principal cities of conquered territory. This served the twofold purpose of bolstering the ego of the victors and reminding the vanquished...
...with non-isolationist or liberal record. In New York, to the nation's delight, down went rabid anti-Roosevelt isolationist Hamilton Fish, after 24 years in Congress. His successor: liberal Augustus W. Bennet, 47, Newburgh lawyer. Another surprise was the defeat of the Chicago Tribune's alter ego, isolationist stalwart Stephen A. Day. Against Day and the odds, intelligent, serious Emily Taft Douglas, wife of a Chicago economics professor (now in the Marines) won her first try at big-time politics. Rednecked Marine Colonel Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, another isolationist, lost...