Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the congressional ethic: a tolerance of differing views, a desire to accommodate, a sense that at the heart of government lies the right to disagree and to have that disagreement voiced and voted. Although he has been a major political figure for many years, Ford has a minor ego that does not get in the way of his politics. Like most men of action, he has a temper, but the bouts pass quickly. He does not indulge lasting grudges; an enemies list would be unthinkable to him. "I have had lots of adversaries," he says, "but no enemies that...
Americans have always had mixed feelings about their press. In folklore, the reporter is Superman's alter ego, but he is also the Front Page cynic who would trade in his grandmother for a scoop. By way of a more elevated example, almost everybody (at least among journalists) remembers Jefferson's famous remark that if he had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, he would pick the latter. But few recall that Jefferson also wrote on another occasion: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper...
...years now, Maeve Brennan's sharp-eyed alter ego, "the Long-Winded Lady," has been posting bulletins about the city and its inhabitants in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. A self-styled "traveler in residence," she has always been able to turn quite ordinary things-two people looking in a store window, a small parade, a cat crouching under a parked van-into "moments of recognition." Her old-fashioned method is the unabashed use of straight description, as in A Snowy Night on West Forty-Ninth Street, the one New York story in Christmas...
...makes sure that each artist has paid her $20 membership fee and $2 entry fee. Each artist makes sure that she rests in Cooper's affection. "They all use me," says Cooper, "because they think I can sell their work. All they want is to sell something. For their ego. They don't need the money...
Eventually, Coleman progresses to positions as salad man and garbage collector, but in the chronicle of his stay, Blue-Collar Journal, he never manages to ditch this early alter-ego. For while he maintains a certain down-to-earth, unpatronizing attitude toward the class he is visiting, the chunks of sociology he offers back up to us higher orders tumble back down upon his head, groundless, as often as they manage to make the grade. Coleman is forever uncertain of the proper distance to keep from his proletarian brothers, usually resolving the conflict between his roles as observer and participant...