Word: egotist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chiang is a dismal egotist with a devoted following of stupid, ruthless, cowardly gangsters. Chiang & Co. can no more be offered to the free world as China's answer to Communism than Senator McCarthy can be tolerated as America's answer. Shame on you for publishing that tearful eulogy...
...Lowering Clouds (Simon & Schuster; $6), third published volume of Ickes' sometimes fascinating diary, does make a contribution to historical accuracy: it should go far to correct the deep public impression that Harold Ickes was a lovable and forth right "old curmudgeon." He reveals himself as a devious old egotist...
Frederick John Kiesler has one of the smallest frames and biggest brains in contemporary art. A gentle, Vienna-born egotist, he lives in strict simplicity in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and at 58 still steadfastly refuses to limit his ideas to the salable, the practical or even the altogether sensible. His colleagues have been both damning and deifying his theories for years. Because he keeps well ahead of his time, Kiesler has little substance to show for his notions and few laymen ever have heard...
Milton Berle is "acknowledged to be the king of TV entertainers, but he is not universally liked by his subjects," many of whom think him "an extreme egotist" and "rude." His humor "does tend to emphasize physical action," and "the viewer feels uncomfortable when Berle is obnoxious and gets applause for it . . . In summary, Berle violates a major value of American society-that of self-control...
Such airy servings, neatly calculated to confirm preconceived British notions, have won Iddon the Fleet Street title of "Britain's Walter Winchell." Since 1943, bumptious Reporter Iddon ("let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") has been doing his diary the way his bosses and readers seem to like it-by skimming the foam from the U.S. scene...