Word: egotistical
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...prize personalities discovered by Durham and Jones is Nat Love, an ebullient egotist who claimed to have been the original and genuine Deadwood Dick. Whether or not he was an authentic folk hero, Love's biography typifies in many ways the story of all Negro cowboys who faded out of history into oblivion and stereotype. After a gaudily romantic career of herding cattle, rounding up mustangs, and getting drunk, Nat Love surrendered to the modern world when the railroads finally mechanized the cattle business around 1890. In that year, acting with grotesque symbolism, Love "traded his cowpony for an iron...
Bitos commits a characteristic faux pas by appearing in full costume. This also attests the nature of the man, a small-minded, bloody-minded egotist, seething with inner fury and monumentally insecure, inflexible and prideful. Maxime and his friends hate Bitos for his lowly origins, for the brainy diligence that made him first in school and for the fanaticism with which he is hounding and executing wartime collaborationists...
Verse for the W.C. The many sides of Lewis emerge from his letters: exuberant promoter of the arts, gifted literary infighter, thin-skinned egotist, kindly teacher. Dashed off hurriedly and often in hot anger, the letters are no match for Lewis' best prose, but perhaps they better reveal the man beneath the controversialist...
...Willis finds himself assailed by criticisms. He is, critics charge, an egotist massively convinced of his own Tightness, stonily resistant to other people's ideas. He bristles at any questioning of his administration. Wags say that he has revised Chicago's motto, "I Will," to "I, Willis...
...society"-not just brains and grades-should be the admissions criterion of top colleges, says Headmaster Leslie R. Severinghaus of the Haverford School near Philadelphia. In the Journal of the Association of College Admissions Counselors, he warns against the "highly intelligent, aggressive, personally ambitious, and socially indifferent and unconcerned egotist." Because these self-centered bright students have "little to offer, either now or later,'' colleges should be ready to welcome other good qualities. "Who says that brains and motivated performance represent the dimensions of excellence? Is not social concern a facet of excellence? Is it not exciting...