Word: egotist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they could talk, kept it up in a great four-year crescendo. At the age of 2 their chief interest outside themselves was in objects. By the time they were 6, that external interest had shifted largely to persons. "The pre-school child," Dr. Fisher reported, "is a confirmed egotist and extremely sociable. He satisfies both needs by talking incessantly to other people, telling them whatever he happens to be doing at the moment...
Since the world began, few men have thought or written so much about their precious selves as John Cowper Powys. If it were not for the personal pronoun and the exclamation point he would be tongue-tied. A more unabashed egotist than most authors, he gave his ego a field day last week by publishing a grotesque 595-page autobiography. Whether or not the mirror he holds up to himself is distorted, most readers will agree that the image it reflects is a little cracked. Author Powys admits: "I know, and I daresay my reader will willingly bear...
TIME, March 12, glorifies Charles Dickens properly, but errs in attributing to "modern debunkers" a description of Dickens as "snob, sentimentalist and egotist." Those identical qualities of Dickens caused him to be kicked down the stairs of the Louisville Gait House in the late '60s. The manager of that famed hotel put his boot in Dickens' rear and lifted him down the great stairway, to the amazement of the world. Kentucky historians record the incident. It can be verified by files of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now owned by our Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...description of Paul Dombey's death is too strong meat for modern literary stomachs; but all should be interested in his ingenious theory of how Dickens meant to finish Edwin Drood. In his concluding pages Biographer Leacock unbosoms himself of sentiments that would have warmed the cheeks of Egotist Dickens: ". . . The name of Dickens has not yet been put where it belongs. Whole courses are devoted to Shakespeare, a man-or a collection of men-of far lesser genius. ... In due time it will be known that the works of Charles Dickens represent the highest reach of the world...
...modern scholars agree with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus "that cold-blooded egotist," Telemachus "the priggish son who yet met his master-prig in Menelaus...