Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says Marion Javits, who has managed to do so with considerable éclat: "The wife who accompanies the man who shakes the hands knows what 'impersonal' means best of all. She is completely left out ... You become part of your husband's audience. Although the ego of people in public life doesn't quite equal that of Orson Welles, who is supposed to have wanted applause when he climbed out of the bathtub, it is there...
Henry Adams wrote that "a friend in power is a friend lost"; that may apply to a husband as well. He becomes a different man, and not necessarily a better one. However humble his office or aptitude, he develops an exaggerated notion of his power. "His ego is constantly fed," observes Jane Muskie, who periodically denies such nourishment to her own husband. "A little kick in the behind sometimes helps," she adds. "Politicians are not a lovable lot," says an internist who has treated countless numbers of them and their wives during nearly 30 years of practice. "They are self...
...near total rejection of psychoanalysis? After all, Freud's works had been translated into Japanese by 1930, and after World War II many Japanese medical students and doctors went to the U.S. to study psychoanalysis. Tokyo Analyst Soichi Hakozaki offers one answer: the "softened ego" of the Japanese, produced by a clannish and group-oriented culture that ignores the individualism that is essential to the success of analytic techniques...
...also serves as the President's top domestic affairs adviser, is expected to leave soon. Cole, a former advertising man, simply lacks the clout and political experience that Ford will demand in the new job. Cole will probably be replaced by what one presidential adviser calls "an alter-ego type of person"-a seasoned political figure who thinks very much like Ford...
There will be a large spurt of self-congratulation: how we came out of the crisis, how resilient our system proved itself to be, how Congress rose to the challenge, how the transition was carried out so orderly. We are going to be engaging in a good deal of ego boosting about what fine people we are. At the same time, beneath the surface, there is a bit of Watergate in all of us. Postwar America has been an era of "get where you can as fast as you can." While it is not corruption in the financial sense...