Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next six months, the small group of bankers, lawyers and scholars confronted what many labelled an exercise in futility. "The best they can hope for," one cynical alumnus said at the time, "is a man with a mind small enough to take the job and an ego large enough to think he can do it." It was not an easy task in the early 1970s: presidents of major universities were stepping down left and right and the offered job promised many problems and few rewards. Any decision would be seen as political. The Corporation, as one senior faculty member said...
...ascent to this higher consciousness demands the abandonment of an "ego sense of identification," Mahan Singh says. One's consciousness can be seen as analogous to the equation E=mc2, "with the body as the equal sign. You can convert yourself to light or to the gross physical body," he adds...
...scientists finally persuade Simon, played flawlessly by the unflappable Alan Arkin, that he's an extraterrestrial who has come to save the world. But they turn him into a monster, whose ego expands exponentially, and who eventually acquires his own television station--Simon, the fourth network--commanding people to terminate their fondness for disco, Muzak in elevators, and other socially irritating habits...
...fact, audacity is the word that best characterizes the entire album. It is what makes Lunch the most interesting of the no wave survivors. James Chance continues to subsume himself into his own ego and prejudices, Mars and DNA run circles around themselves and their past achievements, but Lydia Lunch has reached out to embrace new experiments. Don't let her cold stare and chubby cheeks fool you. Dada...
...frightening how much David Mamet knows about this perverse mating dance, this conflict between the it and the ego. What, has he spent his life in sticky piano bars that draw only lost stewardesses, old mailmen and dead celebrities? His ear for dialogue, for real speech by people with sore kneecaps, cannot be matched. Likewise he has a delightful knack for truisms, the pithy revelations of small minds obsessed with sexual communication--intercourse, as it were...