Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ego Vos Absolve. Back in the cabin, Padre Carlos Gonzalez Salas, 34, of Tampico, Mexico, a tall, athletic-looking priest with the skin of an Indian, was chatting with his seat mate and looking out of the window. Gradually he began to realize that something was wrong. When a crew member explained the situation to the passengers, Padre Gonzalez Salas clutched his scapular and said a prayer. "I began," he said later, "to experience a great feeling of anxiety...
...Insulted Ego. A vigorous opposition to the new trend comes from Veteran TV Producer Fred Coe, who guided the Television Playhouse through its earliest, most realistic days. Coe, who last month produced Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth on NBC, thinks TV is becoming the sick man of the arts: "I don't know why the American people should give Ed Sullivan 65% of the audience against Helen Hayes, Mary Martin and The Skin of Our Teeth. I'm puzzled...
...middle age. Instead of constant revels, however, we are faced with the sight of Harvard Reunioners attending symposia and discussing the problems of the University and the world with a virtuosity and vocabulary that we, again, thought the special property of undergraduates. This is a hard blow to student ego...
...graduate students here in the Midwest, have suffered severe and irreparable damage as a direct result of your very nattering article about Caltech. One of us read it the day before taking a final examination in a course on Techniques of Plant Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin. The ego-inflating article strongly implied that there was little need to study for the exam. The exam was flunked. The other, after reading the article, came to a similar conclusion regarding a homework assignment in Quantum Mechanics at the U. of I. At the present writing, the assignment has not even...
...Sweden has one of the highest living standards in the world, its people are healthy and happy, and its women are beautiful. Perhaps the pretty girls would not give Mr. Brown a tumble, and his male ego has been injured...