Word: egoistical
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Owner of the Egoist Press, publisher of The Egoist, Harriet Weaver was a shy little wisp of a woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...
...attacked critics who had been particularly bitter against his revolutionary music. Any unfavorable criticism was unfair and the man responsible was either intentionally malicious or else bribed. Few of his friends lasted long, their friendship often depending on whether they were willing and able to lend him money. An egoist through and through, he hated men who disagreed with him, and accepted those who flattered him. Nothing outside his own life, his own problems, interested him--the music of others was not worth listening...
...egoist like his fellow reporter-biographers, Mr. Miller likes to go on solitary two-day hikes "as a useful mental astringent," still has to give himself a fight-talk to ward off journalistic stage fright before interviewing famed figures. Less blatant in his self-revelations than Negley Farson, he shows less literary skill than Walter Duranty, less philosophical originality than Vincent Sheean. He gropes for "some system ... of bringing the capacities of production and the requirements of consumption together so that the whole world can enjoy the advantages made available by the machine." That this solution will be realized...
...last few minutes of this afternoon will see hectic photographers streaming to the Fine Arts Guild with dripping prints for the judges. The fifty early entrants whose work has already come in, are thirty on the whole, as well as beforehand. Not even the most arrant egoist felt sure enough of winning a "large cash prize" to pay for more than three over the normal quota. Or perhaps six prints is all a photographer can bear to show at once...
...with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship is balanced by an uncanny and unfair mastery of diplomatic wiles; a coldblooded, prescient, ruthless opportunist; a calculating and conceited egoist; a cad with occasional instincts for that strange indulgence for which they have no word in their own language, and which they designate by our own expression, 'fair play...