Word: conceitedness
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I'm convinced that Zsa Zsa Gabor is the most conceited female on this universe, and is concerned about no one except Zsa Zsa. My sympathy goes to George Sanders, for I'm sure he's worse off than just a "squeezed lemon."
Eddie grew up with a permanent chip on his shoulder. One schoolmate recalls that "he would fight at the drop of a hat -just for the hell of it." Another remembers: "I never saw him in the summer without a baseball glove, or in the winter without a soccer ball...
What, UNESCO wanted to know, do the people of eight countries think of other nations and of themselves? Pollsters, armed with pencils and a wide range of adjectives (samples: hardworking, conceited, cruel, brave, peace-loving), set out in the U.S., England, France, Italy, West Germany, Australia, Holland, Norway.
"Progressive" and "practical" got the most foreign votes as the outstanding U.S. characteristics. But 52% of the English called Americans "conceited" and 46% of Frenchmen called them "domineering." Only 34% of Frenchmen (who have received $2.5 billion in U.S. postwar aid) called the U.S. "generous." The Russians got it all...
At home, each nation thought well of itself. Americans saw themselves as "peace-loving" (82%), "generous" (76%), "intelligent" (72%). All the others also put peace-loving high on their lists, except the Germans and Italians, who listed these outstanding virtues: "hard-working," "intelligent" and "brave." The most self-satisfied people...