Word: egoism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defined by the 13-25 age group, "articulates for that segment of society, a social angst--a haunting anxiety about the future." Whereas the popular music of the 1960s took on heavy topics with an eye towards change and hope, today's music is fraught with frustration, alienation and egoism...
What highlighted Peter Sellars' egoism and insecurity that evening did not have to do with the orchestra, though. Having previously decried artistic intolerance in others, Sellars demonstrated himself as a hypocrite of the worst sort, insulting the validity of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Society, cast and material both. It's true that Mr. Sellars was refused the directorship of a G&S production as an undergraduate: his subsequent poorly-reviewed production of an adulterated Mikado demonstrated why. But to hold a grudge against an uninvolved party because of thwarted aspirations of years before is not only unmerited, but unbelievable...
...drove into a river, a mother strangled her child and then took her own life. There is a pattern: the parents cannot pay back loans or cannot endure the financial pressures of their lives. One psychiatrist observes, "Japanese kill themselves for more or less altruistic reasons, not out of egoism or self-pity." And they kill the children to spare them the pain of growing up without their parents. Lately police have found dozens of bodies in the forests around Mount Fuji. People travel from all over Japan to commit suicide there. The place has been named "Suicide Forest...
...defense ministry officials and military officers who had flown in from all over the country and even from fleets at sea. Although Brezhnev's speech was frequently slurred, a result of his illness, he did not mince words in his address last week. American "adventurism, rudeness and undisguised egoism," he declared, threatened to "push the world into the flames of a nuclear...
...singing. This focus centers more and more on the one remaining empty table, which turns out to be the set. Thus begins the first of the three farces, Alphonse' Allais's "The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother." Christopher Randolph, as the waiter, enchants the audience with his nonchalant egoism and warbles his strong voice as he sings both on and off the stage. This first farce consists of the waiter serving a poor beggar (portrayed in an appropriately pathetic manner by Sam Samuels) as they each complain about the failures of their lives. But as the beggar hopelessly asks...