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Word: egos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admission. Tiebout thinks that for such characters, standard psychotherapy -building up the patient's ego and self-confidence-is sadly misplaced. He is convinced that an alcoholic who stubbornly tries to defeat the habit all by himself is sure to fail. A.A.'s major discovery, says the psychiatrist, is that the first essential step is the alcoholic's admission that alone he is helpless against alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alcoholics' Ego | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...blundering way, seems dark, powerful and stern, he is a prey to suspicions and frights that are the counterparts of Allbee's. When Allbee, evicted from his furnished room, moves in to live with him, the intimation is hard to miss that Leventhal's alter ego, his subconscious share in the general ills and abandonments of humanity, has come home to roost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suffering for Nothing | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...took the ego, the imagination and the opportunism of John L. Lewis to prove that the social and economic climate of the New Deal made almost anything possible, that spending union funds on industrial organization was not a gamble. Green was appalled by the defection of his friend John Lewis to the C.I.O. and by the uproar which attended it. When Lewis bloodied Bill Hutcheson's face during the tense 1935 convention, Green reprimanded him from the platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Man from Hardscrabble Hill | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...didn't wanna do it. I didn't wanna do it!" screams Al. "I was swindled into it by this tremendous ego of mine. I'm like a chile, I tell yah! 'Al,' I said, 'Al, old fella, they wantcha again. They finally seen the light.' Oh Lawdy, I got 'em good. And I just couldn't resist rubbing their noses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Switcheroo | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...amount of education has entirely succeeded in doping the popular mind into complete uniformity, for however uniform the doped minds of the masses may appear to be, somewhere lurks the undefeated ... ego waiting a chance of 'breaking through' and asserting itself. Often the last kick of indomitable individuality is against the accepted meaning of words, it is none the less a kick even if it misses its mark, like the legendary old lady who had always been under the impression that Cherubim and Seraphim were 'man and wife like Sodom and Gomorrah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Collaborating Reader | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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