Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patrick Kingsgrant is a junior at Harvard, class of '51, and a freshman at life. His right arm was slightly crippled at birth, so Pat goes out for the football team and damages his right knee. This test of manhood merely inflames his ego; he enrolls in a creative-writing course. A story about his "true friends" and eccentrically named roommates, David Tall Man and Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily...
Before Psychiatrist Thigpen's eyes, Eve White had changed into a different personality. She gave herself the name Eve Black. Sometimes the new personality appeared spontaneously. At other times the psychiatrists hypnotized Eve White, called upon Eve Black to appear, and White turned into Black. The alter ego, it developed, was fun-loving and nightclub-haunting, a smoker, drinker, dancer, leader-on of men, and daring dresser-all the things that Eve White could never...
...criticism, can quote whole paragraphs from unfavorable reviews that appeared ten years ago. He likes reassurances?the backstage compliments, the perquisite Cadillacs, the fawning headwaiters, the fluty dowagers, the company of fame. He is brash and often tactless. He suffers from what was once described as a pre-Copernican ego, i.e., seeing the whole world revolve around him. The condition was described by his onetime mentor, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, with an expressive Jewish word that means cheek, nerve, monumental gall. "He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere 35, dared...
...building roads and schools. But the military men also lavished benefits on themselves: U.S. jet planes, Swedish destroyers, post-exchange luxuries. Rojas and other high officers profited by the easy loans and business tips that their power brought them. As the President's affluence grew, so did his ego; he started a Third Force political party, requiring followers to take an oath of loyalty "before God" to him. Rojas attacked old-party politicians with rising fury, and when six army trucks loaded with explosives inexplicably blew up last August in Cali. killing 427 and wounding 2,317, he made...
...almost entirely as a material being controlled by biological urges. Thus man's spiritual search for the "core of his being"-which is essential in every religion and almost every philosophy of life-was reduced by Freud to a matter of the "superego accepting the ego." This, to Progoff, means that Freud was guilty of intellectualizing and mechanizing "a basic cosmic experience...