Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cell in Everett, Wash., under 24-hour guard, refusing to eat. His lawyer says he will try to starve himself to death, and marshals are prepared to force-feed him if necessary. Says Christman: "He didn't believe he was going to be captured. His self-image, his ego told him he wasn't going to be. Now he is faced with the reality of the cell. That's a big adjustment for someone with a makeup like this...
...work, Zaleznik draws on a tiny, relatively unknown 1921 book by Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In it Freud attempted to get beyond conventional descriptions of group behavior by showing that in "artificial groups, each individual is bound by libidinal ties on the one hand to the leader and on the other hand to the other members." The members love the leader and share a common "illusion" that the leader "loves all the individuals in the groups with an equal love." Freud cited the Roman Catholic Church and the military as examples of cohesive groups...
...committee and deplore people who play boys' games when there's a war on. They don't seem to realize that most of their plans for sneaking out are also boys' games. As always, these two stars are marvelously professional, and even Stallone's ego is more or less under control here. As for Pelé, no one asks him to act. He is required merely to be what he has always been: a magical figure. That he is, and he suits a movie that finally exerts its own kind of magic, not subtle...
...years he has marched in lock-step with his more celebrated mentor, engaged in the same skirmishes, succumbed to the same defeats. Last week he shared in the same triumph. China's new Chairman, Hu Yaobang (pronounced Who Yow-bong), is the obliging alter ego for Deng Xiaoping, the country's real strongman. A shade shorter and ten years younger than the 5-ft. 2-in., 76-year-old Deng, Hu has the same resilience, explosive energy and quick intelligence. At the same time, Hu is a demanding administrator who can be relied on to carry...
...omission is the name of Tom Wolfe, the nation's preeminent journalist of styles and manners whose term "radical chic" is used without attribution. At its best, Showing Off in America is provocative enough to get readers thinking of themselves as social beings after a decade of bestselling ego-lit. At its worst, the book succumbs to irony as an unwitting parody of Veblen's sociology. - By R.Z. Sheppard...