Word: egoism
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...that of France, Mexico and Britain, contains rich veins of screen material which deserve to be mined by able writers. The Milky Way (Paramount). No. 2 comedian of silent pictures, almost as rich and famed as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd reacted differently when talkies arrived. While Chaplin, with the egoism permissible to genius, defied the new medium, Lloyd conscientiously set out to adapt himself to it. His method was cautious: while retaining the outlines of the comic character with which his admirers had been pleased in silent pictures, he chose stories which depended less exclusively on the efforts...
...propositions contained in my plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
Professor Allport, "Egoism as Basis of Behavior," Emer...
...position which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria occupies in this melange is critical and interesting. As the world knows, he is the nominal bulwark against the Anschluss and its proponents, the Nazis. Keyed up by a buoyant egoism which has led him to exploit his four feet eleven inches as a little Napoleon, and supported by considerable religious fervor, he has snatched at every straw to consolidate his position. To take the wind from Nazi sails, he has become a real dictator with actually Fascist principles, though professedly an amorphous Christian Socialism. How long will he last? That...
...work-a-day world, their careers and feelings possess a peculiar fascination. An atmosphere of fairy story illusion pervades all action and this atmosphere provides a desired relief both from the crudities of reality and the harshness of "realistic" plays. Theirs are adult passions curiously interwoven with a childlike egoism and sublime indifference to realities. Underlying their tenseness and melodrama is a saving realization that after...