Word: egoists
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...began Ulysses in 1914; portions of it in progress appeared in the Egoist in England and the Little Review in the U.S., until the Post Office, on grounds of alleged obscenity, confiscated three issues containing Joyce's excerpts and fined the editors $100. The censorship flap only heightened curiosity about Joyce's forthcoming book. Even before Ulysses was published, critics were comparing Joyce's breakthroughs to those of Einstein and Freud...
...Tuesday on the stage of the Savoy Theater in London. In one corner, the challenger and clear crowd favorite, a pink- cheeked, brush-cut 28-year-old and the first native-born Briton ever to contend for the world title. In the other, the defending champ, an Armenian- born egoist, 30, with killer instincts and a reputation as the best warrior of all time. At stake: competitive pride and a purse of $2.6 million...
...have a dream (or is it a nightmare?). The year is 1996, and the Democrats, weary of the nonstop sniping from their twin 800-lb. gorillas, finally give in and nominate their all-egoist ticket. It is Jackson-Cuomo or Cuomo-Jackson. Naturally, the two are unwilling and unable to decide which of them should be at the top of the ticket. They bicker constantly, each with his own polls proving that he deserves to be his party's standard bearer. They ignore the opposition and battle to the end, to Jan. 20, 1997, when they are spied jockeying...