Word: alterity
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...skinny, deadpan Charley O'Rourke had helped him discover the pleasures and profits of a daring offense. With an alter ego like O'Rourke to run the team on the field, think for it in emergencies, maybe run and kick but certainly do the forward passing, Leahy could go on through life "playing" football, not just coaching. At Notre Dame, he searched until he found an O'Rourke. This one was named Angelo Bertelli. Then Leahy found a system to fit his man. It was the popular...
Although President Conant thought such individuals are probably born, not made, and that education would not alter the degree of tough-mindedness, it could "modify the ambitions and goals of many men. If I am right in this and there be merit in my preference for a certain type of idealist, the way certain problems are handled in our universities may have considerable influence on the future of this nation...
...bushy-browed Peggy picks up dialects as easily as Alec Templeton catches a tune. Whenever she is assigned a new one, she talks on the telephone with a Hollywood bit-player who speaks the dialect, instantly echoes his accent and inflection. Now she has more alter egos than she can possibly keep at work. Solution: she is writing five new shows to keep herself busy...
Cornered Cobra. It was wonderful the way Bill and later on the reporters talked about Bill's fearless, shameless, icy-eyed alter ego, George Murman. Bill had been about 13 when he met George. Right away, George had tried to get Bill (who had a police record of his own) to go out prowling fire escapes in the night...
...including a wisp-bearded Garibaldi Army veteran with medals of 1870 gleaming on his shirt of fireman's red. (The Sartorio mural, Italy Unified, had been shrouded: it showed republican Garibaldi shaking hands with Umberto's great-grandfather.) Because some 200,000 votes-which could not possibly alter the people's verdict-were still uncounted, the court adjourned without deciding who was legally chief of state...