Word: egocentricism
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The careful driver who rates a fellow motorist as "nuts" for honking his horn as soon as the light changes to green is probably right, though medically inexact. Alan Canty, psychologist for Detroit's traffic court, spelled it out in more technical terms at a National Safety Council meeting...
Apart from these minor divertissements, there are two things that lend this slow-paced, obvious picture some fun. One is the young playwright and his literary labor pains, written here & there with a real touch of wit. As the egocentric fellow in search of a wife who will thrill him...
Mather's ambition to seat a conservative was continued by the equally conservative and egocentric Rev. Joshua Gee 1717, his successor in the pulpit. Gee and Edward Holyoke, 1705, both sought the post, vacated when Wadsworth died in office in 1737.
Last night, while E. E. Cummings was continuing his "egocentric exploration of himself," dozens of would-be listeners were exploring various futile ways of gaining entrance to Sanders Theatre. Most of those who arrived at 7:50 and later, finding the hall filled to fire-law capacity, fruitlessly alternated between...
Continuing his "egocentric exploration of myself." E. E. Cummings '15 read excerpts from his prose writing last night in the fourth of this year's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Sanders Theatre.