Word: egoist
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...eight frantic days, George's parents, members of the multi-millionaire Weyerhaeuser lumber family whose domain stretches from Wisconsin to Washington, had been dickering with "Egoist" for the boy's return while Federal and local police had reputedly kept hands off. The Weyerhaeusers had got little sleep...
...Governor of Washington dispatched a special detachment of the state patrol to join the hunt. Within 24 hours 15 Department of Justice operatives from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco had converged by plane, train and car on Tacoma. The fearfully expected ransom note, posted at 6 p.m., signed "The Egoist" and demanding $200,000 for George's safe return, arrived special delivery at the Weyerhaeuser home at 6:25. It directed that communication with "The Egoist" be inserted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over the name of "Percy Minnie." Next day secrecy could be preserved no longer. The second morning...
ALTHOUGH Mr. Fisher has drawn the title of this, the second volume of Vridar Hunter's tetralogy, from George Meredith, he and his book own little else to Meredith's writing. Where "The Egoist" suggests and flashes, Mr. Fisher has sworn enmity to the principle of artistic selection; everything is written down and written through, however irrelevant or banal, and it is written simply. The result cannot be meretricious, there can be no temperamental flourishes, but one of the deepest of Meredith's lessons is that literary abases have a rich value all their own. What many critics have called...
...course this is grossly unfair. The person who writes in a book which is common property is a philosopher. He is an egoist, who believes other that his is the only mind which can be proved to exist, and therefore that his actions can have no effect on other minds, or that his mind is universal to such a degree that all which is important to him is important to all. From such a cosmic attitude the fact that poor bookworms suffer from painter's colic is negligible. In his underlining the egoist is making a modest bid for immortality...
...sense devoted. She was a cipher who only occasionally complicated his amorous arithmetic. Jo's steady mistress was Alice, who used to write poetry before he made her happy, and still did when he treated her, as he was fond of doing, like dirt. Jo was an introspective egoist and not much fun for those around him. When he discovered Tillie, a retired dancer still aching from her last affair, he welcomed her as a wanted complication. Then, against his will (he had no judgment) he found himself taking her seriously. Incapable of fidelity at his best, he went...