Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which are easy to forget if you've been sitting in the suburbs for a while, but on the thruway you pass Albany, and in the distance looms the series of edifices that the ex-governor built with Speer-like glee before he left office, a sop to his ego and construction-industry friends. They are buildings that will still be here when the world ends, inhuman enough for the J. Edgar Hoover Center in Washington to look like a Taos adobe beside them. With that, on a cold day when the windows are bubbled shut tight, and the army...
...article on the events at The New Republic quoted some remarks by Walter Pincus, the executive editor, who specialized in articles on Watergate. (A "Watergate obsessive," Peretz says.) Time reported that Pincus was disconsolate and would quit soon. Pincus told Time that Peretz was "a guy on an ego trip who doesn't know where he wants to go." That was enough for Peretz. As he recalls, he put down the magazine, walked into Pincus's office and said: "Walter, I read in Time that you say I don't know where I'm going. Well I know where...
...views were "official" - endorsed by his government in London - participants in the Rambouillet talks deny any connivance. As one of them told TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter: "I was sitting in on all of Henry's conversations with Callaghan, and, although it may offend Moynihan's ego, I know he didn't talk with him about Pat Moynihan...
...tells us what the killer instinct means--once you have an opponent by the throat you don't let him up, but keep him down. It's reminiscent of Bobby Fisher's comment that the enjoyment he derived from chess was not only winning, but crushing his opponent's ego as well...
Rationale of the Dirty Joke is an un deniable presence, a work of majestic ego that was weathered by new attitudes and ideas long before completion. In the future, it will be plundered, measured and thumbed through for titillation. But the book will remain impervious in all its pocked dignity, authenticity and embattled romanticism...