Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doris Kearns, 33, associate professor of government at Harvard, describes that last bitter period of L.B.J.'s presidency in Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a biography to be published by Harper & Row in June. It is a sad, dispiriting account of ebbing power and influence, of vast ego and appetites deflated, of a world collapsed...
...week tour, the Classics rode on the crest of the basketball mania that is sweeping Puerto Rico. "The fans don't know much about the game," says Kallaugher, "but they get totally shitfaced and go around following their home teams." Kallaugher says "it was really kind of a big ego trip. We were celebrities...
...hassles with actors who were awed by the subject of the film and thought in an ideological frenzy they had to give it all they had. I've never seen so many experienced professionals overacting in my life." Redford is probably entitled to credit for submerging his actor's ego beneath his producer's needs and playing, as does Dustin Hoffman, as part of an ensemble...
...praise is generous, perhaps too much so. All the President's Men may be seen by many as an ego trip?the era's leading movie personality discovering that the only subject big enough for him is the era's most significant public event and latching on to it. Hoffman recently went to see the film version of James Whitmore's one-man show Give 'Em Hell, Harry and reports the audience cheered when Harry Truman stepped right up and called Richard Nixon "a lying son-of-a-bitch." He argued on the set that All the President...
...internal department probe was a charade. Sheehan had, in fact, played to Kissinger's ample ego by writing a letter to Assistant Secretary Alfred L. Atherton Jr., who heads the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. It was full of encomiums about the Secretary and asked for Kissinger's cooperation in the author's research. Sheehan thought he was "laying it on a little thick," but sent the letter anyway. Atherton showed it to Kissinger, who told him to help Sheehan. Atherton preserved the fiction of not disseminating classified documents by reading aloud to Sheehan...