Word: egocentricism
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Died, Frank Harris, 75, author, editor and critic (Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions; The Man Shakespeare; My Life and Loves); of asthma; in Nice. Fearless, blatant, egocentric, he had many bitter enemies, a few stanch admirers; his books were often attacked as obscene, sometimes suppressed. Fleeing school in Ireland...
This was more like an interview, reporters fired questions. Who in his opinion were the greatest U. S. artists? M. Matisse didn't know. What were his views on U. S. art? M. Matisse had none. Were there any signs of a return to classicism in France? M. Matisse...
In his article, "Harvard: Fair and Cooler", in the latest Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts bites the hand that fed him, apologetically but severely. His caricature of the Harvard he saw and the Harvard men who tried to interpret Harvard for him is a diabolically clever masterpiece. He...
NOVEMBERNIGHT?Anonymous?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). Like the sinister figure of a masked and hooded surgeon the anonymous author of November Night morbidly and efficiently slits the emotional substrata of complex characters. Denise, egocentric wife of a self-made man, is a neurotically dissatisfied Hedda Gabler. Denise's shadowy longings finally...
Authors Upton Beall Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis are sometimes confused in the casual mind and not only because of their names. As penmen they are stylistic cousins of whom the younger and cleverer-Mr. Lewis-has far surpassed in ability and notoriety his more intellectual and radical elder. Yet when...