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Milton Berle is "acknowledged to be the king of TV entertainers, but he is not universally liked by his subjects," many of whom think him "an extreme egotist" and "rude." His humor "does tend to emphasize physical action," and "the viewer feels uncomfortable when Berle is obnoxious and gets applause for it . . . In summary, Berle violates a major value of American society-that of self-control...
Such airy servings, neatly calculated to confirm preconceived British notions, have won Iddon the Fleet Street title of "Britain's Walter Winchell." Since 1943, bumptious Reporter Iddon ("let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") has been doing his diary the way his bosses and readers seem to like it-by skimming the foam from the U.S. scene...
...After dinner, feeling sick and savage, started off for a solitary ramble. Traveling eastward, found a beautiful road through the woods . . . was gone all the p.m. Conceived a great work to immortalize me to all posterity . . . 'Confessions of an Egotist.' . . . Went off to walk with Freshman Thompson in the p.m. Visited a cider-mill [and] got some sweet cider and good apples. Conversation ranged widely: religion, poetry, schoolteaching, genius, societies, etc. . . . [With another student] discussed the Episcopal Church . . . preaching, prostitution, and a variety of other subjects. . . . Found the North College semi-joe [outhouse] all in a blaze, surrounded...
...young man" is now an "egotist among the bedeviled." The furious, intense talk of the Greenwich Village days has been replaced by the caterwauling of women and their sycophantic male companions at Westchester County cocktail parties. One's college friends are now discovered to be boobs and morons. The great dream of the Revolution, the Russian experiment which above everything else gave life a meaning and a significance, is ever, and in the morning after one can get rid of the hangover only by beginning to drink just a little earlier every...
...articles based on letters (they go back to 1853 when Twain was 18) which Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote to members of his family and to his onetime publishing partner, Charles L. Webster.* They often show Twain at his worst-techy, cussed, filled with distrust of his fellows, a domineering egotist. They also often show him in full comical steam. In sum, they make the difficult man a more understandable genius...