Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack.) What tends to happen on location with Sellers is that the star grows increasingly insecure as filming approaches and during the early days of the shoot. Then, if he does not find his character, or if he senses a lack of support?and he requires monumental amounts of ego boosting?writers, directors, even fellow players find themselves getting fired or, at the least, undergoing very heavy weather. One could fill pages with damaging quotes from people who fell out with Sellers on one picture or another...
Massachusetts managed to appropriate its own share of the spotlight briefly in 1972 after years with a dogged Democratic reputation and not much visibility. The '72 primary gave Massachusetts a hefty ego boost--its majority vote for Sen. George McGovern, coming on the same day as his victory in Pennsylvania, clinched his nomination and extinguished Edmund Muskie's waning hopes. Of course, the Bay State went on to greater glory and better bumper-sticker copy ("Don't Blame Me, I'm From Massachusetts") as the only state to vote for McGovern over former President Richard M. Nixon in the general...
...Soviets are racing to get the first satellite into orbit. While CIA Chief Allen Dulles frets and a viciously urbane Dean Acheson argues that a Soviet space triumph may be necessary to shake American complacency, the agency plans to kidnap a top Soviet scientist. Enter Buckley's later ego, ex-Yalie Blackford Oakes, fresh from triumphs in two earlier works (Saving the Queen, Stained Glass) and eager for yet another chance to save the world...
...long decline, there does seem to be a renewal of interest in developing preaching skills [Dec. 31]. Many of us who came out of the seminaries in the 1950s thought there must be a better way to communicate the message, because preaching seemed to encourage passive congregations and ego-inflated ministers. Preparation and delivery of sermons got less effort than they deserved. Perhaps there is now a trend the other...
...there are times between callers to sit back and ponder the situations that arise and what to say to people. What is mostly required is not knowing the answers--although having some facts at your fingertips is essential for emergencies--but being able to take your own ego out of the interaction and really listen to the caller, respond to them as a caring human being and not make moral judgments about their behavior. The point is to give them both the strength and the incentive to help themselves, to take steps to deal with their problems or to stop...