Word: egoist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a pretty fair stake in private industry, I do not see in the President's clamping down on this self-centered and rugged egoist any resemblances to the Brown-Shirted seizure of private businesses in Berlin a decade ago, nor do I see any grave threat to capitalistic economy. In fact, I feel that Attorney General Biddle, whom I happen to know, was unduly sensitive of Avery's rights and his sensitivities. Much more so in fact than Avery has been of others in the course of his rugged career...
Romain Rolland called Mahler "an egoist who feels with sincerity," and it is probably his unmistakable earnestness and depth of feeling rather than surface skill that will keep him from becoming a fantastic museum-piece. He was most effective in lyrical passages where his braggadocio and forced climaxes could give way to mood-painting and color. In this respect and several others he resembled Schubert. Despite his strivings for power and long-winded reiterations, he might well be called the Heine of music with a dash of Buddha thrown in, the nostalgic life-affirmer and the world-weary philosopher rolled...
Despite his perfunctory tribute to electricity, Pierre Mercadier did not really have confidence in progress or even in social stability. He was an egoist, individualist, amoralist-a sort of living symptom of creeping social sickness. He had a sizable fortune from his father, but taught history in the provinces to make a little extra. Pierre himself gambled in the stockmarket, but he was no wizard. He lost money...
Personally, Professor Sorokin is as pleasant and charming an egoist as it is possible to find at Harvard, home of many successful men. His eyes, behind steel-rimmed glasses, glitter smilingly with every word he utters. Some people who take his courses groan that they can't understand a word he says. A little judicious listening, coupled with the immunity gained after a few of his lectures, should fix that. Short, boyishly cut gray hair, a rapid and brusque manner, make him seem a tall little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with...