Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bruck amply demonstrates, Ross's charm made him a natural for Hollywood, where everyone is a vortex of ego and where success belongs not to those who count the beans but to those who extravagantly spoil the stars. If Barbra Streisand wanted a painting, why not buy it for her? If Dustin Hoffman was vacationing in Europe, why not provide him with a yacht? If Steven Spielberg was looking for a home in the Hamptons, why not arrange the sale for him? "It's about people, really -- realizing what they want," Ross once told Bruck...
...place where all things come together. He is the one person, more than ((chief of staff)) Mack McLarty or ((presidential counselor David)) Gergen, who doesn't lose the forest for the trees." Although Clinton does not see Stephanopoulos as a peer -- "he's not an alter ego," cautions another aide -- Meyers maintains that Clinton "trusts him more than anyone else...
...administration, as can be imagined, was hesitant about annointing the less-than brilliant mayor as America's all-purpose representative overseas. Although Flynn made noise about turning down the post, his ego was eventually soothed by the administration and he accepted...
...just blew it off. When you blow it off, somehow you're less responsible [for your grade]," she explains. "If you don't even try, it's like, 'You could have tried, and [you might have] been good enough." Kunde, an English concentrator, attributes this attitude to the Harvard ego-cult of excellence. "I think it kind of ties in to the whole Harvard fear of mediocrity," she speculates. "I think the worst thing you can say to someone at Harvard is, 'You're just average...
Instead of risking our ego capital on the investment of a greeting, and possibly losing face (What if I say hi and no one says hi back?), we all keep it safely tucked away in our mental banks where the rate of return is essentially zero, but a least constant. Big deal, you say. So I don't say anything. What's the difference...