Word: egocentricism
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". . . [Progressive school teachers] who have concentrated on the [development of personality] have succeeded often in developing superficial, egocentric young people, lacking in discipline and woefully ignorant of the great cultural and religious traditions through which man has emerged from group savagery into individual freedom . . .
Washington Story. A Brünnhildean blonde, 52-year-old Esther Tufty is no word wizard. But rival reporters respect the egocentric energy with which she has built one of the busiest news bureaus in Washington.
Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his...
The plot concerns the romance of an unbelievably wonderful young girl and a man of the type supposedly indigenous to the acting profession, the middle-aged egocentric. Complications are provided by the actor's mistress and his godson a "boy next door" kind of character. Mr. Herbert, who is "no...
A Harlot's Guest. The hostess is an ex-prostitute named Mrs. Goodman. Among her guests: a kindly, timid intellectual, Max Ford; Max's brother Tom, physician and egocentric man of action; Father Morton, doddering, syphilitic priest; Daisy Tillet, "girl of the golden legs," to whom both brothers...