Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resentful and lonely-and clawed her way to success and greatness with a singlehearted ferocity that awed even her enemies. Conductor Tullio Serafin, her indispensable mentor in the crucial early days, was tossed aside temporarily-for daring to record La Traviata with another soprano. Enraged at the Callas ego, La Scala Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano declared, "I'm never going to sing opera with her again." Later he changed his mind about Callas, but then so did a lot of people...
...Equal Rights Amendment is stalled just three states short of ratification, and conservative anti-feminist forces are picking up strength in their fight against federally funded day care centers, ERA and other women's programs. The San Jose meeting echoed with sour charges of "betrayal," "desertion" and "ego tripping...
...play is extremely cynical in its depiction of a world where greedy and exploitive men are overtly dominant, but scheming and sleazy women capitalize on the weaknesses inherent in the male ego, somehow, they are always the ones left with all the aces up their silken sleeves...
...ego inflates so much, in fact, that she at one point ridicules Flynn as a "greasy mick lawyer" and claims she can do better as her own defense. She dismisses the warnings of the worldly Flynn who says, "You're a phony celebrity Roxie, a flash in the pan--in two weeks nobody'll know who you are kid.... That's Chicago." But after one of Velma's girls is convicted and receives her just desserts at the end of a rope, Roxie agrees to dress up like Susy Homebody and bring a bit of vaudeville to the jury...
After Sanders' departure, another soon followed. When JOE BEAULIEU came here last fall, he was accompanied by enough press clippings to satiate an Arthur Fonzarelli ego. When he transferred to Boston College last month--after being asked to withdraw from Harvard for a year for academic reasons--his star was no longer rising. Neither was the basketball program he had come to rescue...