Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says American Motors President George Romney, who believes that his compact, "commonsense" Ramblers will find a niche for themselves among Detroit's ever-longer, ever-lower luxury models: "The automobile is no longer the means of satisfying the ego of the American. The consumer is turning to swimming pools and boats and trips to Europe and a lot of other things besides automobiles...
When the new class leaves the historical scene-and this must happen-there will be less sorrow over its passing than there was for any class before it. Smothering everything except what suited its ego, it has condemned itself to failure and shameful ruin...
Resentfully shunted to the wings by Dylan's ham-acting genius, her own romantic ego yearned for the center of the stage. Ironically, Dylan's death freed her to indulge in his own kind of self-destructive self-expression. The character she re veals is a kind of Lilith raging with sexuality, jealous and mother-fierce as a tigress, and without a compass needle of discretion or direction in her head...
...combination of factors: lack of feminine companionship, a feeling of isolation, compensation for being frustrated in the academic and social ends of college life, and the intensely ambitious young men Harvard seems to attract. Undergraduates, many of whom have been accustomed to a large amount of ego-gratification before entrance, often find themselves made more ambitious by the frustrations of this university. This need for appreciation and power very often take the form of desire for political advancement...
...publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance was to gratify his ego without running the intolerable risk of having him, in fact, set up a rival power center to Moscow...