Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catalogs the hilarities and humiliations of auditions, repeats Arthur Godfrey's introduction on Talent Scouts ("Vickie Lynn ((her stage name then)) is a beautiful girl with mounds of auburn hair and two of everything she needs"), recalls the anti-Semitism of her husband's friends, and displays some heated ego in an exchange with Sir Rudolf Bing, who had prevented her appearance at the Metropolitan Opera. Bing: "Not every great singer can sing at the Met." Bubbles: "Not every great singer wants to." Nor can every great singer walk away from $7.5 million worth of bookings in order to retire...
...Auchincloss's characters must struggle with this problem, one so hopelessly old-fashioned as to seem brand new. His graceful, straightforward narratives, so conventional in form, convey a rare impression: people behaving as if their actions meant something beyond the swamp of ego and the self...
...That was a problem for him," she says. "He has a typical male ego...
...most common theory, however, is that Buettner-Janusch was always slightly off balance. "He wasn't doing it for money, he was doing it for ego. This was just part of his megalomania. He thought he could do anything and get away with anything," says former NYU professor Charles Leslie...
...death in 1959, he reigned as a kind of aesthetic Pope. From his "Vatican," a Tuscan villa known as I Tatti, he issued monographs, criticism and decisions about the authenticity of masterpieces. His verdicts could make or break a market, damage a museum's reputation or deflate amultimillionaire's ego -- and his tax write-offs...