Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perry Miller, professor of American Literature, delivered a Bergen Lecture at Yale last Friday. Tracing the European background of American 19th century literature, he titled his lecture "Nature and the National Ego...
...been conditioned, by appeals to the ego...
With the British, especially, McCarthyism is an obsession-& delightful, self-flattering obsession that salves the bruised British ego with the balm of moral supertority to the upstart Americans. The more McCarthyism can be exaggerated in its evil or its power, the more it fascinates the British...
Perhaps the most startling innovation, and one which doubled Engine Charlie's value as an executive, was his introduction of a faithful, trusted alter ego. This was Deputy Secretary Roger Kyes, a hard-featured giant brought along from General Motors, where Wilson had originally hired him to get G.M.'s truck division out of the red. Wilson was boss and Kyes understood the boss. In the Pentagon, Wilson gave Kyes a free hand and Kyes, making no effort to build a personal empire, devoted his great competence to making Charlie Wilson a successful Secretary of Defense. Pentagonians were...
...seems that Griswold has finally made his decision to join Harvard in a football policy which has for so many years been advocated by Provost Buck. Griswold's alter ego Hall, who represented the N.C.A.A. position, is gone, and the prospect of an enlightened Ivy League seems a lot brighter. Harvard's decision yesterday not to sign the N.C.A.A. television agreement is another important move toward a practical football policy. One cannot de-emphasize football, and at the same time play it for revenue. The N.C.A.A. agreement was merely a business move which kept the necessary big time football apparatus...