Word: conceitedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I Am a Genius. Churchill, Patton wrote after meeting him at Casablanca, "speaks the worst French I have ever heard, his eyes run, and he is not at all impressive." Montgomery, he thought, "was small, wonderfully conceited and the best soldier in this war." Harry Hopkins "was like a pilot...
Prodigies are seldom lovable, and Macaulay was no exception. As a boy he was "loudmouthed and conceited," with a visible "neglect of cleanliness." As an adult he was variously described as a "mean, whitey-looking man" and "an ugly, cross-made, splayfooted, shapeless little dumpling of a fellow." He had...
Motown Beatitudes After listening to the Motown album What's Going On, the Rev. Jesse Jackson informed its creator, Soul Crooner Marvin Gaye, that he was as much a minister as any man in any pulpit. Gaye does not see himself in quite that way, though he does admit...
In another Walden Two passage, Skinner sketches a more realistic self-portrait. With some bitterness, his alter ego Frazier addresses Burris: "You think I'm conceited, aggressive, tactless, selfish. You're convinced that I'm completely insensitive to my effect upon others, except when the effect is calculated. You can...
Although Fitzsimmons is well aware of his talents, he is far more confident than conceited. Outspoken and frank, he should be one of the more colorful sport personalities at Harvard. And as a player, well, as the man who once hit on 15-for-18-shots in a game against...