Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious, so predictable, a syndrome. The high school bigshot comes to the Home of The Bigshots and gets his ego smashed right off the bat. So he spends most of his conscious energy working out a strategy to piece it back together. A woman, of course, is prime target for his peacockery, meat for his projected fantasies. But if she slights him, however inadvertently, he takes it as a threat...
...town to accept a testimonial resolution, Guru Maharaj Ji, the 15-year-old Indian religious leader, was struck with a shaving-cream pie hurled by a bearded ill-wisher. The pie thrower, who had concealed his missile beneath a box of flowers, said the guru was on an ego trip and "I wanted to show he was mortal." Unfortunately not quick enough to turn his cheek, the guru did give his attacker his forgiveness blessing...
More specifically, transactional analysts believe that what makes a person unhappy is an unbalanced relationship between the three parts that constitute every human personality: Parent, Adult and Child. Harris rejects any suggestion that these are the equivalent of Freud's superego, ego and id. "The Parent, Adult and Child are real things that can be validated," he insists. "We're talking about real people, real times and real events, as recorded in the brain." Be that as it may, the theory is that unless the mature, rational Adult dominates the personality, or, in the language...
Mitchum's performance is excellent. Although he is built too powerfully for the role of hapless Eddie (can the man help it if he's got shoulders which must be the envy of any professional football player?), he plays the part with an admirable neglect of movie star ego--implying that his talents have been neglected over the years. Unknowns Richard Jordan as Foley, the undercover policeman, and Steven Keats as Jackie Brown, the wise-guy kid, are also very good...
Shortly before his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. told his constant alter ego and right-hand man, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, "Ralph, whatever happens, keep the team together." Last week, his shoulders sagging and his voice an emotion-charged bass, Abernathy stood before King's tomb on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta and spoke to his fallen mentor: "I did what you asked. I tried to keep the team together. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me for resigning this day. I'll see you in the morning...