Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These letters, spanning the years 1912 to 1936, punctuate a relationship evidently more than satisfying to its protagonists, but disturbing in the extreme to the non-partisan reader, and I would hope, to the partisan as well. Freud's egoism, his supreme indifference to anyone's work or to contributions other than his own, his condescendingly terse replies to Lou's "blithe optimism," as he terms it, suggest the reasons for the defections of Freud's less willing disciples. In the face of so little reception, of the glaring silences with which most of Salome's efforts to communicate...
...media, Richmond has drawn a life-sized and realistic picture: His protagonists are not "hippies." They are individuals, children of the bourgeoisie, living entirely for the very stoned present. Young, confused, vulnerable, and tragically in love with the idea of a spontaneous revolution, they live out a morality of egoism to which even the petty cruelty of schoolchildren is preferable. There at least is a coherent ethics, compared to which Richmond's counterculture is a veritable jungle. The sexism is vicious, the community is haphazard, and the allegiance is nil. Still the author insists on romanticizing the squalor...
...anyone who has ever had anything to do with The or any other movement; splinter groups ad infinitum, closed circuit appeal, and the impotence of social protest that caters at best to the audience of educational television, and at worst, which is more often, to little more than the egoism of its leadership. The situation--a fatigued politico surrounded by his socialist progeny and friends--has all the makings of a humorous subject. Humor however, is not the strong point in any of three stories. As for the temptation, about which the author seems a trifle undecided, it seems...
...scene is the most crucial in the film. It presents Hopper in all his sincerity and egoism: he really wishes to know these people, and hopes that they will work together, but is himself prevented from personal exchange by his leadership position and neurotic artistry. "Listen, why don't you listen to me," he urges them at one point, but he sounds sadly self-entranced...
...Fatal Sacrifices. Even more important in Blachly's thinking is the fact that suicides decrease in wartime and other periods demanding personal sacrifice; then, he says, "the intensity of egoism and anomie is diminished as the individual participates in a common social goal." To put his theory into practice, Blachly proposes an alliance between organ-transplant centers and some of the many suicide-prevention services that are now in existence. The services, which usually offer psychiatric help to callers, would refer appropriate cases to transplant centers as possible donors. The customary two-or three-month waiting period before surgery...