Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which makes up most of the Unconscious, contains man's prehistoric, primitive, must-have-it-now, animal drives. The Id's theme song is "I want." Man is born with an Id and soon develops an Ego, which learns the community rules and makes the decisions. The Ego says "I will" or "I won't." Last, there is the Superego, which is the censor or conscience. The Superego says, speaking to the other two, "You must" or "You must not," and demands punishment (in the form of a guilty conscience, worry, etc.) if its commands are violated...
...weeks ago Chávez, who is head of the government's Institute of Fine Arts and the nearest thing to a government music boss, started rehearsals for a special "little" opera season. His foes said he was doing it to boost his own ego; he was trying to undermine the regular opera season ; whatever he did would be bad. Then, suddenly, Chávez' orchestra struck...
...satisfied. The aggressive section of Indian public opinion has been appeased. Hyderabad, which was never really out of India, is now indisputably part of India. There have been no terrible outbreaks of communal violence. The Nizam, who capitulated in four days and 13 hours, satisfied the demands of his ego for at least a token fight. Said Lieut. General Sir Maharaj Rajendrasinghji, the Indian generalissimo: "It is not our job to hurt anybody who is law-abiding." This presumably included the Hyderabad army. There were no casualty reports (by the best available count, twelve Indian soldiers were killed...
...endorse Harry Truman, Mike countered by kicking out smart, swarthy Harry Sacher as lawyer ($6,000 a year) for T.W.U.'s Local 100. Said Quill: "He is a conniving member of the Communist Party and he has connived with the party to wreck the union. Sacher has an ego like a peacock and he goes today...
Britain's bookish radical, Harold J. (for Joseph) Laski has spent most of his 54 years looking at the world through pink spectacles. Born in Manchester of Hungarian immigrant parents, he looks like a young Henry Van Dyke but often talks like poor Poll with elephantiasis of the ego...