Word: egocentricism
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While Hofstadter's writings make clear why he was so outstanding, they do not explain why his friends and students grieve so deeply over his death. He was personally warm, humane, and gifted with a rare sense of humor. Few men of his stature have been so genuinely modest and...
> Henry Kissinger is "an egocentric maniac. He loves to appear in the newspapers with Jill St. John. But when he gets back to the office, he's really a brilliant man." (The term "egocentric maniac" would only have been spoken in jest, Mitchell aides maintain.)
Look to the Lilies belongs to this sorry lot. Adapted from the 1963 film Lilies of the Field, which starred Lilia Skala and Sidney Poitier, the show is peculiarly ill-attuned to the temper of the present time. The musical presents a group of West German nuns relocated in the...
Dellinger's approach is the kind that is needed to bring any type of political change. Rubin's style, manic, egocentric, theatrical in the worst sense of the word, can provide entertainment, but not real change. He is looking for a brilliant, beautiful spark which will come only in fiction...
If I'm going to get involved. I demand some compensation. If I'm donating my time, energy, money, and promising future to the liberation of non-elites throughout the world then "they" better damn well appreciate it. A pretty egocentric sentiment, to be sure, but an easy one to...