Word: egos
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...assume you know more than your characters do, or condescend, even to children. A young girl, Munro's alter ego, tells an affluent employer how, where she comes from, "children walked barefoot until the frost came in order to save on shoe leather" and people ate "dandelion leaves, nothing else, for supper." Just as we're shaking, she admits (to us only) that not all of this is strictly true--and so tells us as much about the sly, storytelling imagination of the girl as about rural circumstances that really were desperate...
What gives this rivalry its extra punch is the obvious antagonism between the Vegas heavyweights. In a corporate world where p.r. spin masters train CEOs to spout boring managementspeak, Adelson and Wynn think nothing of tossing barbs at each other. Adelson complains that Wynn has "a big ego." Wynn calls Adelson "Mr. Magoo, with an edge...
...Wilner: Luce loved Hadden. They had an amazing friendship. Even while he was betraying Hadden for 38 years, Luce felt fondly towards him. But at the same time, I think Luce was intensely jealous of Hadden, and because Luce had a weak ego and an extremely well-developed sense of competitive instinct, he always wondered what Hadden had thought of him and he felt uneasy, that maybe Hadden didn't respect Luce as much as he should have. And he felt dwarfed by Hadden. It's very difficult to feel that way towards someone who has passed away...
...boys-network moment, the Prince also recounts how Apple beat out Robert Caro—of "The Power Broker" and "Master of the Senate"—for the Prince chairmanship, and they reprint the article announcing his election. Was Apple's notorious ego behind making that article the lead story? Anyway, from the obit: The next year Apple faced Robert Caro '57 in the election for 'Prince' chairman. The two had long battled for dominance as the star reporter of their class, Milton said...
Harvard Bookstore pulls yet another fun trick out of its sleeve by cohosting a spelling bee (creatively dubbed “the bee”) with the Brattle Theatre and Houghton Mifflin Company. Looking for an ego boost? The “All-Ages Bee” (read: little kids) starts at 6:00 p.m., followed by the classic film “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” At 9:30 things get adult when the grown-up competition begins, complete with a beer and five syllable words...