Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to have a sincere interest in the problems of other people. Otherwise it's just some kind of ego trip," says Wallace, who was paralysed from the waist down after breaking his neck playing rugby at age 16. "I'm not particularly interested in that...
...Wolfe since the time he pulled an all-nighter to complete a memo for Esquire. The Novel is the proof that Wolfe--fiction or non-fiction--has not lost much of his original punch. As he wrote in the introduction to New Journalism, "A writer needs at least enough ego to believe that what he is doing as a writer is as important as what anyone he is writing about is doing and that therefore he shouldn't compromise his own work...
...Ego, and not truth, the professor argues, is the guiding principle behind Habermas' theory of rationality. And thus Habermas' critiques of the philosphers of modernity that preceeded him are all part of a grand strategy for establishing himself as a legend, rather like Hegel did in an earlier century...
...projecting, at this ! late date, a ludicrous cold war stereotype -- the Soviet as gibbering sadist -- and a certain amount of comment for going into release just as the Soviets are withdrawing from Afghanistan. But what is the spirit of glasnost compared with the needs of a successful actor's ego and his fans' expectations? Somebody has to keep the priorities straight around here...
...fuss, Hamilton's book emerges as a canny and engaging variation on that old journalistic ploy: how to write a lively story about not getting the story. In Search of J.D. Salinger is basically a tour de force, impressively written but a bit precious. The author invents an alter ego , character who prods the legally lamed Ian Hamilton to get on with his project despite the court's restrictions on paraphrasing. He also takes the liberty of imagining what Salinger might say to him: "It is you I hate. You are a snooper and a thief...