Word: egos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST, edited by Lawrance Thompson. This collection shows the poet's wit, shrewdness, ego-and also the courage that saw him through an unrelenting succession of family tragedies...
Time to Give Up Gandhi. Non-Westerners, writes Sinai, fail to understand that the West's envied economic progress is not a matter of technology alone. It rests on character traits developed over centuries of Western history: an assertive individualism; a secure, well defined ego; a Faustian drive to learn and master...
...anything from a noble elephant to a lowly spider?depending upon the merit of his previous life's deeds. As a kind of cultivated escapism for the individual who masters the drill, Buddhism has been dismissed by some Westerners as Freudianism in reverse: a systematic elimination of the ego so that anxiety has no place to roost. Originally, Buddhism was an otherworldly path leading each man deeper into himself?and certainly not into the political arena...
...fond of proclaiming: "As far as I am concerned, there are two kinds of women-goddesses and doormats." Mile. Gilot's account of the master's views on art-his and others'-is illuminating, but best of all are the tart portraits of a monumental ego, made more devastating by the ample use of anecdote to drive her points home...
Moliere, Too. What gnawed most at her ego was a reviewer's remark that her stage manner would make an angel swoon, but her words would make a monkey blush. Devoting most of her last four decades to getting on the side of the angels, she scoured libraries and chateaux to add Crusaders' lays and a centuries-old Vie du Christ cycle to her repertory, which she performed on academic platforms ranging from the University of Vienna to Bryn Mawr...