Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says. But an internal hunger (Hecht calls it "creative egoism") kept gnawing at him. He had a look at himself in A Guide for the Bedevilled, a handbook of Hechtian philosophy written...
...assumed name. He was seen at the Frick Museum. "All the real or fanciful memories of his prolix love experiences strewn in disorder along the semiprecious beach of his life were now gathered together and arranged by his libido in the great hierarchical and opalescent vase of his sybaritic egoism." So he was glad to meet Veronica Stevens, who was now living in Palm Springs with Betka, the Polish girl...
...Those disordering the regulations by individualism, egoism, thinking only about yourself, rushing for your goods...
...source of his failures. Whitman's femininity gave him his tremendous powers for the passive absorption of experience, for sympathy, for the almost bottomless endurance (as in the Civil War hospitals) of massive suffering. But it also accounts for the sentimentality, effusiveness, extreme over-assertiveness, pseudo-masculinity and egoism of many of his poems...
...must have the simplicity of the confessor. We all have need of it in different degrees-often to shake off our deep-seated egoism . . . and to consecrate ourselves to a truly free spirit and all our energies to the greatest of duties...