Word: egoism
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...care what "they" think, and to discard the notion, or what is by now the pretense, of being a representative. The student-leader's guiding motive shifts from the electorate to his own mind, or his own desires; the rationale is no longer representation, but power; not altruism, but egoism. And with this comes the abnegation of responsibility, a ram pant evil among Harvard undergraduates...
...opponents with what an old acquaintance calls "the coldest eyes in bridge." Captain of the U.S. team that lost the world championship match to Italy last winter, Crawford is an inveterate gambler, plays poker, canasta, gin and pinochle for money, as well as bridge. Well supplied with the egoism that seems necessary to bridge greatness, he was once asked to name his ideal partner, unhesitatingly rasped out his answer: "Another John Crawford...
Nadia Boulanger, recently in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, said of them: "These artists refuse every kind of temptation--searching for effect, facile emotion and egoism. They have attempted distribution of light and shade without diminishing the importance of a note, a rest, a rhythm, or a line. The manner in which they have attained their objectives brings back the memory of Pugno and Eugene Ysaye...
...Maritain, "all this talk about American materialism is no more than a curtain of silly gossip and slander." He coolly measures U.S. attitudes by materialist standards and finds that the label simply will not fit: "America is not egoist; for the common consciousness of America, egoism is shameful . . . There is no avarice in the American cast of mind. The American people are neither squeamish nor hypocritical about the importance of money in the modern world . . . The average European cares about money as well as the average American, but he tries to conceal the fact, for he has been accustomed...
...book's portrait of a marine in the making suggests that Author Russ subscribes to the cultish concept of the Corps as a breed of supersoldiers. Once in a while, the swagger of transparent egoism royally fouls up Author Russ's prose: "I'm also not going to think too hard about why I volunteer for everything. And I'm not going to think too. I'm not going to think. I'm not going to. I'm not going...