Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocked, after this reception, to be taken into another room by a very charming young lady, told to remove my coat and to lie down on a cot. Another young lady came to the bed and started to question me further about my medical past. At this point my ego had been inflated to the extreme, and I took this woman into my confidence and explained that they really didn't have to go to all this effort, that I intended to renew my subscription anyway...
...play, with its writers and actors, has to do with temperament and ego and vanity, and again with irresponsibility and self-indulgence, disappointment and regret-with the minor-key emotions of which Chekhov was already a master. For Chekhov did find himself in The Sea Gull, while still owing much to others: he is actually inferior in it to the precise degree that he is indebted...
...principle, i.e., that patients must have responsibility if they are to show any. He finds it harder to apply this principle in his private life. At 39, his wife Karen is as fresh, and as false, as counterfeit money. A blonde china-doll type, she nurses a badly nicked ego because McIver has been sleeping in a separate room for eight months. His two children are bright as toothpaste ads, but busy Dr. McIver barely knows them...
Your feature article on Vice President Nixon brings this reader to the point of uttering a little prayer: "We thank God for a President who is not afraid of talented and efficient underlings . . . who has a well-placed ego and does not, therefore, consider himself omnipotent or eternal. We thank God we are free of Presidents who reduced the vice presidency to the level of a national joke, for one of those jokes became President and look wha' hoppened. God, we are grateful...
...year-old son put on the state payroll at $505 a month as assistant to the director of professional and vocational standards, a job for which the young man had no experience. At that point, Goody Knight decided it was time for a change in his alter ego...