Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went into private in 1979, and then jumped back into politics in 1982 to win a hard fought primary campaign for heutenant governor. He was elected along with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, whose staff now praises Kerry for his advocacy of the acid rain issue--and for keeping his ego under control...
...particular brand of loneliness. The tragedy of them all living in a house with paper-thin walls and yet still so lonely and so insulated, is something that Jennings lifts out of the melodrama, bringing it up to Williams at his best. As Williams's stage alter-ego, the Writer chronicles it all for us, commenting to his landlady, "I've learned so much here ... I should be paying you tuition...
...possibility for a thriller, the simultaneous unveiling of deep secrets and the realization of fantasy. Scotty, Ray and Mickey personify Freud's conception of the mind. Scotty is the Id; one's primal nature, impulsive and sensual. Ray represents the superego, law-abiding, secure and conventional. Mickey's the ego in the middle, trying to achieve a balance between the two. "Thief of Hearts" fails to achieve a thoroughly disturbing effect because Mickey suffers from a healthy psyche. She is tempted, she even yields slightly to Scotty, the man who offers to bring her fantasies to fruition. But Mickey never...
...says she envisions the role of cox as part coach, part cheerleader and part sports psychologist. "A cox has to play the role of ego for the boat. You're its mouthpiece and by articulating its goals and how it feels about them, it is a constant reminder," says the Eliot House resident...
WHEN SIGMUND FREUD initially began inquiring into the nature of the human psyche, contemporaries passed him off as a sexual crackpot. And while many psychologists today are still wary of reducing all behavior to id, ego and superego, most professionals in the field concede that repressed behavior is fundamental to a well-functioning society...