Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loot has included some $5 million and a Beverly Hills mansion complete with swimming pool. He has what one Hollywood agent calls "A fabulous ego. Every once in a while, someone ought to tell him that he is not, after all, Sibelius." Jimmy never worries that his inspiration will run dry: "When I was an office boy in Boston, I was a hep kid with a beat. I'm still a hep kid with a beat...
...again & again, perhaps as often as ten times. His choices, blocked in on a complicated scorecard like a crossword puzzle blank, are revealing to the psychiatrist. The filled-in squares on the scorecard can be translated into signs of "conflict" in the four fundamental fields of sexuality, emotional control, "ego structure" (estimate and control of self) and "object relationship" (adjustment to reality...
...This is the last of my columns," he wrote. "A column is heady stuff for the ego. The heckling of bigots is the best sport this earth affords. . . . And it is an advantage to a man of intellectual choler to have ... a weekly oblong where he can divest himself of the indignation occasioned by the antics of his brother-imbeciles. But all this, I yield, and gladly. For my column has been a failure...
...remarked: "I think Henry is a lost soul. People who are not sympathetic with democracy in America are influencing him. Communists perform the most complete valet service in the world. They write your speeches, they do your thinking for you, they provide you with applause and they inflate your ego as often as necessary...
Says Tiebout, a religious man but no churchgoer: "Surrender means cessation of fight . . . logically to be followed by internal peace and quiet. Loss of self is basic. And when the individual surrenders his ego, God automatically steps...