Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evils (due to "refusal to recognize the divine majesty") : ". . . immoderate and blind egoism, the thirst for pleasure, immodest and costly styles in dress . . . the lust for power, neglect of the poor, the flight from the land, levity in entering into marriage, divorce . . . birth control . . . neglect of duty to one's country...
...significance of abstraction for normal life"; "Amnesic aphasia; the problem of the meaning of words"; "The patient's adaptation to his defects; the problem of coming to terms with the surrounding world"; "Organization of the personality"; "The individual and his relationship with others"; "The nature of man; skepticism and egoism evaluated...
...indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous fellow, with perhaps the best mind among those who entertain the ultra-capitalistic theories. He has, in addition, that quality of autoappreciation which is variously translated as egoism or self-confidence. That is not a quality which endears a man to his fellows, but the Boss is rarely a friendly fellow...
...final radio appeal, rousing to every European listener who swears by democracy, the Premier of France climaxed: "History shows that no real, stable peace can be established on injustice or on egoism! . . . The only stable peace is a general peace-that only viable solutions of European problems are all-round settlements...
...that of France, Mexico and Britain, contains rich veins of screen material which deserve to be mined by able writers. The Milky Way (Paramount). No. 2 comedian of silent pictures, almost as rich and famed as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd reacted differently when talkies arrived. While Chaplin, with the egoism permissible to genius, defied the new medium, Lloyd conscientiously set out to adapt himself to it. His method was cautious: while retaining the outlines of the comic character with which his admirers had been pleased in silent pictures, he chose stories which depended less exclusively on the efforts...