Word: egoism
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...impact of this brilliant scientist’s pursuit of glory at all costs is hidden in a litany dinner meetings. And the difficulties of searching for clues to HIV and the efforts of other well-intentioned scientists are entirely forgotten. In trying to portray the futility of egoism in science, Crewdson commits the ultimate irony: Gallo emerges as the only memorable, potentially household name in the story...
...March of 1968, shortly before his fortieth birthday. His sexist pomposity leaks through in a postcard to a friend: “19-year-old now mine.” Despite its readability and lighthearted melodrama, the book is ultimately hurt by Watson’s own egoism. His final description of the woman with enough fortitude to marry him does little to neutralize the sour taste already in the reader’s mouth: “Now, more than thirty years later, she remains very much a sweet peach...
...audiences shy away from words like death and dying, pushed for something hopeful. On Our Own Terms, her choice, deliberately plays to the boomer conviction, she says, that "we can change things; we can control things." Bill thought the wording was wrong precisely because of that. "It feeds their egoism, their sense that they can control things," he said, "and they...
...times the rawness of these letters threatens to expose a Naipaul more human than we might want to believe. Naipaul's friend and contemporary Paul Theroux published a memoir in 1998 about their rocky relationship since the two met in Africa in 1966. Theroux's depiction of Naipaul's egoism and reputation for being difficult is only confirmed by Family Letters. Cynical about the intellectual capabilities of his fellow Oxonians, close to very few people at the university, Naipaul comments to his sister, "It is difficult to exaggerate the dangers of a place like Oxford--the retarding influence...
Faculty absenteeism is one of the most common complaints leveled by critics of today's university system. The pages of the Chronicle of Higher Education--and more mainstream publications--resound with accusations of greed and egoism directed towards professors who flee the classroom for high-paying consulting jobs and the media spotlight...