Word: egoists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shaw than to Dickens and Trollope, became an intellectual comedian whose life was one long perpetration of jokes against his haughty self. His Ordeal of Richard Feverel sardonically recounted the misadventures of a proper Victorian young gentleman brought up in almost complete ignorance of sex. The hero of The Egoist was a young baronet of such absurd self-love that he delayed his marriage (and lost the girl) worrying that she might remarry if he died first...
...turning point, bringing fame and money, came with The Egoist, in which the humiliations of the vain man were described as never before or since. "A complete set of nerves not heretofore examined," said Robert Louis Stevenson, "and yet running all over the human body-a suit of nerves." "A young friend of Mr. Meredith's," Stevenson added, "came to him in an agony. 'This is too bad of you,' he cried. 'Willoughby is me!' 'No, my dear fellow,' said the author...
...Egoist Lanza may be, but with a God-given voice like his, who cares? My wife, a former professional singer, gets goose pimples when we play his records...
Shotgun v. Pistol. Walton Walker is not a colorful prima donna, or an affable diplomat, or a profound strategist, or an egoist with a flair for drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase...