Word: egocentricism
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The student body, too, has been under scrutiny. The veteran majority has worked hard and played hard. On the surface it has been calm, but underneath there has been an unusually tense competition for scholastic honors. While there has been little of the goldfish-swallowing type of revelry, interest in...
Burr (who was actually married and a father at the time),seems to have the inside track until the lady begins to feel the first faint stirrings of political consciousness. Then she recognizes egocentric Senator Burr as the symbol of anti-democratic thinking. Madison, on the other hand, suddenly personifies...
Like the dirty, coal-blacked miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford...
Schoolmaster J. H. Evans comes from Harrow, where men are men or soon will be. Last week in Blackpool, England, Evans led a fight in the National Association of School Masters against an equal-pay-for-women plank. Said Evans, in the argument that carried the day: equal pay is...
The illuminating thing about "Solo" is that on page 243, in a book of 390 pages, the protagonist. Gene Fowler, is 17 years old. Most of the book, then, is about a boy who apparently took notes on the margins of his diaper and kept a careful diary long before...