Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What does a blacked-out city look like to a modern reconnaissance airplane, or to the computing ego of a guided missile boring down from space? Answer: if viewed with up-to-date infra-red equipment, it stands out like a neon sign. Its smokestacks shine like lighthouses; its highways gleam like long bright lines. Nothing can be securely concealed if it is a few degrees warmer or colder than other things around...
...Boil. "Democracy without discipline, democracy without guidance has boiled over into anarchy." he went on. "Such democracy is nothing but chatterbox democracy. Freedom that has not yet reached maturity will always be freedom for freedom's sake. It always centers around freedom of the ego...
...still delivered on the Friday program and opened on Monday, Actress Payne insists that cliffhanging is not "the appeal of our story." "Our characters are lovable, often funny human beings-family friends." But in accordance with the canons of daytime serials, Ma is carefully constructed to flatter the female ego. Says Actress Payne: "Everyone knows more than Ma does...
...slithered under her wire-mesh roof. At week's end an unhappy posse at the Bronx Zoo was still scouting the 250-acre compound. They hoped that Penelope had not ended up in the Bronx River or the Jersey flats. Cecil just scratched his stomach and fed his ego. Where once there were two, he was now the only platypus in captivity-outside Tasmania and Australia...
...their lives alone together, "at least until the war ends," in classic insular-paradise fashion by assuring him that, although she hasn't yet taken her final vows, her heart is already given to Christ. But "Allison's luck" in being marooned with a good-looking nun dents his ego only momentarily, for Japs shell the island and land off and on, and the emotional stalemate is overshadowed by a hide-and-seek fight for their lives, which takes all of Mr. Allison's frustrated energies...