Word: egoist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliot, now 39 years old, was born in St. Louis. His education was wrought at Harvard, the Sorbonne, the Harvard Graduate School, Merton College, Oxford. During the War, he functioned as assistant editor of The Egoist, récherché London magazine. Today he is editor of The Criterion, a neoteric quarterly of pronounced modernist tendencies...
WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN : The Last of the Kaisers-Emil Ludwig -Putnam ($5). "The colossal egoist, the spoof Napoleon...
...Harvard graduate", "socially presentable", anyone who has an article in the Transcript is that, and he will be "between thirty and forty years old", since he was born in 1896. Nor will he be "a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller". Mr. Baldwin is evidently an egoist...
...Napoleon as an egoist surpassed in his megalomania the mere self-interest which distinguished the whole life of Byron. Napoleon was incapable of admiring anyone; Byron admired Napoleon, but he saw his shortcomings...
...Written, as the title hints, at St. Helena, the book is virtually Napoleon's confession of his faith; and his faith was something not to be measured by known standards. It was primarily his faith in himself. It is a story of an Imperial Ego in which the Egoist describes the events of his reign "because his character and his intentions may be strangely misrepresented." They probably are, have been, and will continue to be. Napoleon proceeds to set matters right. The task is not small; his book is, however, too small to save him from the misrepresentations...