Word: conceit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman was really looking for a working definition of "statism" (see The Presidency), New York's Senator John Foster Dulles was happy to oblige. "Statism," said Dulles, "represents man's conceit that he can build better than God. God created men & women with great moral possibilities . . . But sometimes those in power lose faith in their fellow men . . . They take more & more of the fruits of human labor, so that they may, as they think, do more & more for human welfare . . . That process . . . makes human beings into mere cogs in a man-made machine...
Moscow's Pravda had hounded Soviet writers, painters, composers and architects in turn. Last week the paper got around to art critics. The critics, Pravda barked, had "nothing in their souls but bad breath and inflated conceit ... it is imperative to put an end, once and for all, to liberal toleration of all these esthetic cosmopolitans who lack a healthy love of country...
...complex story of the psychiatrist himself, his professional work and private fevers. He is neither miracle man nor mad scientist, as Hollywood so often presents men of his trade. The audience can respect his talents while fearing for his fallibility. There is ham in him, and cold conceit, as he changes face and voice from one patient to the next. He mistreats his wife and dallies with a blonde (Christine Norden), unhappily wondering why he can't be as useful to himself as he is to some of his patients. In short, the psychiatrist is a conscientious...
...working for other people. He quit his $135,000-a-year job at Lord & Taylor, formed his own Hoving Corp. to "acquire and operate" stores "with an annual volume of between $150 and $200 million." Many a merchandiser, who regarded Hoving's cold self-confidence as plain conceit, shrugged off this big talk. But last week Hoving, who bought Manhattan's Bonwit Teller two years ago (TIME, June 10, 1946), took another step toward his goal...
...sense of the word, including the vocational. My work on the CRIMSON led me directly into newspaper work and after the usual five year interruption I became a publisher of a medium size newspaper which I started along with some other people. Probably I would not have had the conceit to take this step if I had not had the CRIMSON under my belt. My work on the CRIMSON was certainly the most valuable single piece of experience I had at Harvard, and I thin it will continue to be so for future generations