Word: egocentricism
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Such diligent documentation also characterizes Trageédie's rich farrago of Gaullicisms. De Gaulle may indeed disavow everything in the book, but nearly every acerbic quip and egocentric rumination has the ring of authentic Gaullist hubris. The general emerges as imperious in private as he is in public...
In Greek tragedies, proud men and women roll their lives like dice against the gods and lose. Man proposes but fate disposes. Euripides, the most skeptical and psychologically minded of the classic tragedians, recognized that man is sometimes his own worst fate. Iphigenia in Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan...
For the past three weeks, she has toiled for as long as 16 hours a day, seven days a week, on Daphne in Cottage D, a Broadway script by a never-produced playwright, Stephen Levi, 26, and she has been waiting for two years to do it. To bring it...
Harvard's fear is that such a move would be interpreted as discouraging language teaching at all levels throughout the country, and this would be ill advised. Such concern sounds a bit egocentric and is probably unnecessary. No one ever seriously claimed that what was good for Harvard was good...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, by Jean Guéhenno. The character and egocentric doctrine of the erratic Rousseau-in many ways the first modern man-are brilliantly displayed in an excellent translation from the French.