Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero, General George S. Patton (George C. Scott), is distantly analyzed by little Goethes in Nazi uniforms. They pronounce him "a magnificent anachronism" and America's most fearsome belligerent. The British, on the other hand, are all whining limeys whose vindictive leader, Field Marshal Montgomery, nourishes his ego on the bones of American troops. One can imagine an equally distorted British interpretation mounting Monty as a knight-errant and Patton as a gorilla...
...unlike the commune that Manson led at a deserted movie-location ranch. Inhabitants of the novel's nest practiced free sexual sharing and group nudity, very much the way life was lived at Manson's ranch. In book and in life, the complete abandonment of personal ego to the all-powerful leader, usually through sexual submissiveness, was essential. The fictional Smith and the real Manson apparently shared a belief in their oneness with God. "Among Martians," Heinlein's hero says, "there is only one religion-and it is not a faith, it's a certainty...
This was forgotten during the struggle for sexual liberation. Once sex became permissible, it increasingly came to be measured by quantitative standards: "How much are you getting sport?" This paternally enough, becomes an ego game, which, reinforced by natural horniness. fights a never ending battle against laziness and guile with little hope of resolution. Can there be no release? Few men realize that many of the complaints of the Women's Liberation movement relate directly to the things that they themselves have always been annoyed at: the passivity of women, their lack of intellectual daring, the forced scenario of roles...
...charged with murder in 1967. Garry recalls that Newton had a bullet wound in the stomach and was being fed through a tube in his nose. "With all of that," says Garry, "here was a man who was not afraid. This man is a natural-born leader without any ego...