Word: egoist
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...this weird spiritualization of cash ("Money is the root of all good") is perhaps only an outward and visible sign. The real point of objectivism is rousing unembarrassed self-interest. For the best man is a tough-minded egoist, "a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Firmly convinced that her own one absolute is reason, Author Rand has gone so far as to boast: "I have never had an emotion that I couldn't account for." Less fortunate people...
...Maritain, "all this talk about American materialism is no more than a curtain of silly gossip and slander." He coolly measures U.S. attitudes by materialist standards and finds that the label simply will not fit: "America is not egoist; for the common consciousness of America, egoism is shameful . . . There is no avarice in the American cast of mind. The American people are neither squeamish nor hypocritical about the importance of money in the modern world . . . The average European cares about money as well as the average American, but he tries to conceal the fact, for he has been accustomed...
Bowdoin Prizes for English dissertations by undergraduates for 1957-58 went to James A. Matisoff '58, first prize of $575 for "La Comedie Animale: La Fontaine as Egoist;" Walter E. Arnold Jr. '58, second prize of $375 for "The Future of the Classical Tradition in Philosophy; Jared M. Diamond '58, third prize of $100 for "Atomic Sieves and Giant Algae;" and Charles A. Shively '59, honorable mention for "The Pequot...
What is Othello about? Sexual jealousy, most people will say at once. True, but it is also a play about miscegenation, about reason and passion, about different personal approaches to good and evil, about inferiority and superiority complexes, about the interaction of two kinds of unusual egoist, and about many other things. There is a whole universe in this play...
...play had its overwrought romantic egoist of a heroine delving among memories of her father, of the men in her life, and of herself at earlier stages (played by three other actresses who vaguely resembled...