Word: egotistical
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...eight, the line trailed blocks away. After the concert, reports one biographer, the youngsters would loiter in the backstage area just to brush the maestro's sleeve as he hurried to his limousine. None of the extramusical sycophancy would have turned Stokowski's head. He was unjustly thought an egotist because of his theatrics on the podium, his links with wealthy and glamorous Hollywood women and his self-styled revolutionary manner. But even the indefensible wrangling over money with the Philadelphia Orchestra was neutralized when 40 years later Stokowski founded the American Symphony Orchestra and paid for the first season...
...CONDUCTOR who preferred a Bronx cheer to apathy would likewise probably prefer to be remembered as an egotist--that he wasn't--than be forgotten. For with his quirks and bitter sarcasm we inevitably associate his idiosyncratic genius and adventurous spirit--sometimes fatal to the ambitious musician's career, but always vital...
Disappointed in earthly endeavors, this supreme egotist has won his measure of celebrity after...
...reports heavy mail, not only from old Rogers buffs but also from younger readers who are seeing him in print for the first time. Presumably, they find that events today tend to bear out Sterling's favorite Rogers line: "Any man who thinks civilization has advanced is an egotist...
Whether immunology fulfills this promise and becomes a major part of medicine's approach to cancer depends in large part on a harddriving, affable egotist named Robert Alan Good. A lanky (6 ft. 2 in.), generally rumpled man with an insatiable curiosity and an almost uncanny ability to assimilate any information that passes his way, Good, 50, is both a pediatrician and a Ph.D. in anatomy. He believes that immunology holds the key not only to controlling cancer but to preventing and curing many of man's other ills...