Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ashes and let them scatter about in modernist prose, hoping that something new and different will happen. In Box Man every conceivable "new" technique is used--from describing the color of ink used in the marginalia, printed verbatim, to a fight between the box man and his fictitious alter-ego about who is the real narrator of the story...
...latter offers an interesting case: Derek purposely left Henry Rosovsky out of his annual report so Henry wouldn't have to take the rap but that omission when speaking of scholarly matters was viewed by many faculty as an unpardonable breach of whatever and a touch of high ego besides...
...such areas of society as disenchanted students, angry congressmen, disappointed parents, Gallup polls, etc. The professor sees it in shrinking grants, criticism from know-nothing politicians, nasty radicals who are rude about the rules of scholarship, etc. I have always found that the other side of a giant, arrogant ego is a painful desire to be petted and stroked. Where else would that apply more? (Except perhaps on Capitol Hill, but there they have to get used to having a shoe clerk tell them what dumb jerks they are every two years...
...know Joni. She is the rural neophyte waiting in a subway, a free spirit drinking Greek wine in the moonlight, an organic Earth Mother dispensing fresh bread and herb tea, and the reticent feminist who by trial and error has charted the male as well as the female ego...
...life where one is seldom alone but usually lonely. There are plenty of men, but they are mostly grinning sycophants or lecherous disc jockeys. Yet it is almost impossible to retire; the thrill of recognition quickly becomes an opiate. "I wish I had an alter ego to hide in," says Bonnie Raitt. "This isn't the easiest way to spend one's 20s." Rock women seldom have successful marriages. The exceptions are Carole King, 33, and Carly Simon, 31, who have normal lives simply because they do not tour, and avoid the whole rock world. Known...