Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second act is in a different tone entirely. Here Adam and his disciple. Alter Ego, meet their fate at the hands of their creations. And here the Capeks lose their sense of satire and even of drama and let their play degenerate into a mass of obscure symbolism and meaningless, unmotivated action...
...title role, playing the dissatisfied man who destroys and then tries to re-create the world, is Theodore Allegretti '47 of Eliot House. Allegretti also played the title role in HDC's "Playboy of the Western World." Sharing the spotlight, Robert Lubchansky '48, will play the part of Alter Ego, whom Adam creates with the hope of embodying in him all the things he would liked to have been himself...
...skinny, deadpan Charley O'Rourke had helped him discover the pleasures and profits of a daring offense. With an alter ego like O'Rourke to run the team on the field, think for it in emergencies, maybe run and kick but certainly do the forward passing, Leahy could go on through life "playing" football, not just coaching. At Notre Dame, he searched until he found an O'Rourke. This one was named Angelo Bertelli. Then Leahy found a system to fit his man. It was the popular...
...group? Is the businessman who gives up a $50,000 a year job to become a college president at $15,000 motivated primarily by fear of hunger or desire for material gain? . . . Are college professors motivated by the carrot? The truth is more nearly that they labor for ego-satisfaction in spite of a paucity of carrots in their chosen academic course. . . . Whatever is the case for the donkey", the incentive for human behavior need not be material gain...
...clearly obedient to the urgencies of the war, goes from the old familiar evaluations of Joyce and Proust to the athletic conclusion that "they both seem to me very sick men, giant invalids who, in spite of enormous talent, were crippled by the same disease, elephantiasis of the ego. They both attempted titanic tasks, and both failed for lack of the dull but healthy quality without which no masterpiece can be contrived, a sense of proportion...