Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud to have been the place where the touch of the hand of Cullen's has been permitted to fall by Almighty God." Then Cullen responded to the praise: "I feel humble. I am sorry the good Lord didn't give me a little more ego so I could feel great." After minimizing himself, Oilman Cullen put in a plug for his biography: "I became convinced that the only way to counteract some of the false theories abroad in the land would be to meet these with the true story of an American boy who by hard work...
...youth alone that has succumbed to psychopathy, but nations, populations-indeed, the whole of mankind. The world, in short, has run amuck." And how did the world get that way? Dr. Lindner answers that one of the major factors producing psychopathy is damage to the ego. He sees a loss of individuality and consequent damage to the ego in the 20th century's mass political movements, social and industrial giants, wars and economic upheavals. "From loss of identity has come insecurity, and this has bred the soul-destroying plague we know as mass psychopathy. Mass man is the psychopath...
...became immortal as Lewis Carroll wrote these lines for his brother and sister (aged seven and five) at a rectory at Croft. During the years that followed, as he grew up to become a clergyman, a teacher and a mathematician, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson kept his alter ego, Carroll, well hidden from disapproving adult eyes. Carroll the storyteller preferred to save his voice for only the very young. In this slim volume, readers will have a chance to judge Lewis Carroll's earliest efforts to please his young listeners. All 16 poems, now published together for the first...
...himself; so much, that, dying, he wanted the living world to die with him. When he saw . . . that the world wouldn't die with him. he turned the world's people into beasts, [i.e., in Animal Farm') . . . Since that didn't satisfy his yearning ego. he prophetically destroyed world and people in Nineteen hundred and eighty-four: [his] Doomsday Book...
...Capps to kid the daylights out of you, your piano, your candles, your curly hair and your adoring fans. I plan to do a Sunday page sequence about a pianist named Liverachy. Any resemblance to you will be deliberate . . . Cordially, Al Capp." Cartoonist Capp, whose king-sized ego permits few turndowns, was stunned when Liberace's lawyers said no. Recovering quickly, Capp invented a new character, Loverboynik by name, who bears an astonishing similarity to Liverachy. Loverboynik is a mad, foppish, candle-less TV pianist with a squealing female public and a mass of platinum blond hair. Capp insists...