Word: egos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistician, he specializes in the laws of probability. As a cabaret performer, he defies them. For when Satirist Tom Lehrer "retired" from show business in 1960 to return to math and Harvard, he deliberately buried his alter ego-and, it seemed, any chance of a comeback. Many fans even believed widespread reports that he had killed himself. Instead it was Lehrer who was slaying the customers last week at San Francisco's hungry i, where he proved to be the nightclub's biggest draw since the Limelighters played there...
Good Structure. Certainly no one role, not even suburban domesticity, is big enough to confine Phyllis McGinley's awesome capacity for self-expression. "She has a good ego structure," says Nina Jones, a friend from the Larchmont days (and now Happy Rockefeller's press secretary). "Phyllis is good and she knows...
...Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's stately home near Charlottesville, Lady Bird presented a seedling from a White House white horse chestnut and received a slight blow to the ego when William S. Hildreth, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, didn't recognize her as she started down the reception line. When his wife later chided him, he lamely explained: "Well, I didn't know. She wasn't wearing a name...
...denied the platform to all but seven of his guests-and then ordered the suppression of an Algerian speech defending the U.N. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman flew home early and a bored Egyptian diplomat shrugged, "This Bandung thing is only to appease Sukarno's immense ego...
...tension between freedom and order, between the individual and society. In many parts of the world, Voltaire's ringing "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is incomprehensible. The sense of individual responsibility that the Western ego has developed over the centuries is missing, and what seems in the West a rather commonplace step-voting and the individual decision that precedes it-can seem in Africa and Asia a lonely and unnatural...