Word: egos
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...Which is not to say that some members of the cast don’t make the rapid-fire, “all jokes are created equal” formula work very well. As Rhett E. Aimfire, a Machiavellain Frenchman with an ego as outrageous as his Napoleonic costume, Michael B. Hoagland ’07 is great. Using his wiry frame to great effect, and always turning with a flourish of his glittering cape, Hoagland’s humor is terrifically focused, less concerned with cueing the audience for laughs than making sure there is something worth laughing...
...live next to the Dutch Reformed Church dominee [minister]," says Evita's alter ego and creator, Pieter-Dirk Uys (pronounced ace). "He always warmly embraces Evita whenever she meets him. We respect each other's theaters." And the clergyman isn't Evita's only admirer. The walls of the foyer are plastered with thank-you letters penned by the apartheid era's superstars. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a regular visitor to Darling (he takes his wife there for their anniversary), writes: "We need you to continue to hold a mirror to our human condition." Alongside are affectionate faxes from the debonair...
Fund raisers are volunteers, and they often get in the game because they like the ego boost. Joining a more fledgling operation can enhance that feeling. "If I walked into Dodd's office with $250,000," says a Democratic fund raiser, "I've hung the moon. $250,000 for Barack? I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. Walk into Hillary's office with $250,000? Get in line...
...work for them.” A self-confessed former “workshop junkie,” Rader said his curriculum and teaching technique have been heavily influenced by the thinking of Carl Jung, among others, as well as Tibetan Buddhism. Writing, he says, should be an ego-less process. Through exercises such as the exploration of students’ pasts and their own “falls from grace,” Rader says he wished to cultivate an understanding of the role of the screenwriter as a conduit. “There is a mythic underpinning...
...question of its survival is involved. Arthur Hertzberg, a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, believes something began to go wrong for Israel at the moment of its greatest triumph, the Six-Day War. He argues that while the 1967 victory was splendid for the Jewish ego, in Israel and in the Diaspora, the demonstration of such brilliant power, whatever advantages it brought, eventually led down a path of aggressiveness and grandiosity. After the Six-Day War, Ben-Gurion, then in retirement, warned Israel that it should give back all the captured territories very quickly, ''for holding...