Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unabashed morality play revealing the struggle between good & evil in the soul of a wealthy and learned Parisian. Cenodoxus ("Vainglory") is known for his piety, charity, virtue; actually he is a fraud, a creature of damnable pride whose virtue is all for effect. Prodded by the black figures of Egoism and Hypocrisy and preyed on by demons, he resists (even on his death bed) the pleadings of his guardian angel; and at his death is tried in Heaven and condemned to Hell...
...last week, none other than French Premier Edouard Daladier, in a speech on the French military budget before the Senate, spoke a good word for federation. The French and British Empires, he declared, have permanently "dismissed national egoism" and have come to an agreement on community of action "whose consequences are incalculable." The Premier continued...