Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waugh's first wife ran off with a future baronet, and betrayal by women is recurrent in much of his fiction. The ladies are usually charming and never malicious but they are prime examples in Waugh' natural history of thoughtlessness. Thei egoism, stupidity, conceit and self-regard become the causes for both cruelty and comedy. In A Handful of Dust, for ex ample, Brenda Last cheats on her hus band Tony. He journeys to South Amer ica and ends as the prisoner of an illiterate jungle madman who makes Tony read Dickens aloud to him for the rest...
...Kotell ran the entire libertarian course before joining Black Rose over a year ago. Starting with objectivism, which is a philosophical approach to libertarianism derived from Ayn Rand's theory of "rational egoism," she moved on to MLP and from there to Black Rose...
...this egoism (as well as a lack of talent) that prevented Crosby from developing into a genuine artist. His spiritually hollow diaries show little sympathy for the people they describe and even his reverence for decadence was second-hand, gleaned from other people's books. He longed for a niche in posterity. But in the end he earned little more than the short-lived notoriety of the suicide who murders his beautiful mistress as a prelude to suicide. And that is no more than any brute with a pistol can achieve...
There are no such heroes in the fiction of Louis Auchincloss, and his romantics almost always pay for succumbing to egoism and stepping out of line Auchincloss's novels and story collections (nearly one a year for 20 years) deal almost exclusively with New York City's white Anglo-Saxon Protestant haven of old name and old money, whose corridor of power runs from the brownstones and duplexes of the Upper East Side to the paneled offices of Wall Street. It is an influential, publicity-shy world where the rules of the game are hardened by tradition...
...politics. "Randians are too moralistic. They believe in absolute standards--Rand's absolute standards--and sometimes they get a little too strident," Donal Rucker '78, a member of the Sons of Liberty, says. In the thousands of pages Rand has written, she carries her philosophy of "rational self-interest, egoism,. individualism, and capitalism" beyond its obvious application to social structure, into fields like art and personal conduct. Ergo holds that only romantic art is good art, for example. A recent display of neon sculpture by Boston artist Chris Sproat at MIT's Hayden Gallery was reviewed critically in Ergo...