Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alter Ego. The vision came to pass, and Churchill, proven right, was the man to grapple with it. He sent for Anthony Eden, and during World War II there grew up a phenomenon unique in English political life: the Churchill-Eden partnership. Back at the Foreign Office, Eden was the P.M.'s friend, his faithful alter ego ("We thought alike even without consultation," wrote Churchill gratefully). He designated "dear Anthony" as his heir apparent, and together they weathered the Tories' postwar exile from the government bench. Eden's chief role was to act as mediator between...
Middle Ground of Hope. Eventually, says Montreal's Dr. Lehmann, the physiological and analytic schools will have to meet on common ground in the middle. His quietly persuasive argument: the analysts talk of ego defenses being torn down in a psychosis, and when this happens the already anxious patient is overwhelmed. Psychotherapy tries to restore the ego, but this is extremely difficult because the anxiety, now almost a physical entity, has unleashed a flood of physiological processes...
...that both Canada and the U.S. are suffering from neuroses: the Canadian neurosis is a compulsive desire to be noticed and the American neurosis is a compulsive desire to be liked. Thus, self-conscious Canadians belittle and criticize the U.S. in order to build up their own national ego. And Americans, expecting friendship, are hypersensitive to the needling. Only mutual understanding, MacLennan believes, will resolve the problem: "The Canadian and American national neuroses will continue to howl at one another like a pair of coyotes in the dark until we turn a spotlight on them, examine them, and let them...
...wedding day, Doris leaves Gig at the altar with his ego and elopes with Frankie to a city hovel. There are the usual misunderstandings, more cruel blows from the Fates and an attempted suicide before the happy fadeout around the family piano...
...CHILD OF THE CENTURY, by Ben Hecht. What one man's ego looks like spread over 654 pages: the playwright and scriptwriter flaunted his hard outer shell, his soft inner character, unconsciously explained why he rarely found "love, understanding or comfort...