Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he killed his parents last summer, Harlow Fraden was unable to work out any really satisfactory way of shaping his environment to fit his ego and personality. He tried immersing himself in poetry, but his mother-whom he habitually described to friends as "that hateful paranoid"-would have none of it. After he graduated from New York University as a chemistry major last June, she plagued him to get a job "like other boys." Instead, Harlow-a tall, thin, languid youth with cropped red hair and heavy hornrimmed glasses-lounged about the family's Bronx apartment, owlishly reading...
...Nehru has always envisioned India as holding the balance of power in Asia. He fears a rival to this privileged position, either one country or a bloc of countries. He has been extremely bitter about Tibet -the Chinese occupation was a Pearl Harbor to his ego. He truly fears that Pakistan will attack India if it has the slightest chance of winning. He is an India-firster to the core, and he doesn't care whether his policies benefit the rest of the world as long as they benefit India and keep her on top in Asia. Nehru truly...
...Touch of Robin Hood. In the meantime, the success of his first book of poems salved his ego without going to his head: "When I read [Virgil's] Georgics, and then survey my own powers, 'tis like the idea of a Shetland Pony, drawn up by the side of a thoroughbred Hunter." He attracted patrons but he rarely kowtowed to them, feeling that it was a common hypocrisy with poets, "when their Patrons try their hand at a Rhyme, to cry up the Honorable or Right Honorable performance as Matchless, Divine...
...They're so spirited this morning,' she told me outside. 'Their little personalities are expressing themselves. We do nothing to curb the ego.' When she went back into the classroom, she was beaned by an orange...
...this point, I have not started to worry about whether Jonathan's personality or his ego is being damaged by discipline ... I am just basking in the warm glow of an unbelievable transformation that makes life so calm and peaceful where once it was so raucous...