Word: egomaniacs
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Where Guidry "the Gator," was quiet, Reggie Jackson, Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner were loud and obnoxious, firing salvos at each other virtually every day in the papers. If ever there were three people destined never to get along, they were the ones. Reggie was an egomaniac who created his own line of candy bars and announced in his first press conference that he would be "the straw that stirs the drink." Steinbrenner was an egomaniac who could not resist second-guessing and dumping players and managers...
Martin was an egomaniac who did not like to be second-guessed, and a field general who expected 110 percent from each player all of the time. He once said of Jackson and Steinbrenner, "One's a born liar, the other's convicted...
Whether Berge fired Barenboim because the Bastille boss is a power-hungry egomaniac or a brilliant visionary who has entrusted the future of one of Europe's august cultural institutions to a young man for whom music is still an art and not just a job is irrelevant. The fact is, without offense to Barenboim (music director-designate of the Chicago Symphony), it was the best thing that could have happened. The Berge-Chung regime sends a signal that there can no longer be operatic business as usual in Paris. That big-league opera means something more than canary fancying...
...recruits naive high schoolers to North Carolina State with visions of national TV, number-one rankings, superstardom and sports cars, only to sit them on the bench? The racist manipulator who covers up his players' drug problems, illiteracy and criminal tendencies without trying to get them help? The egomaniac who pressures professors and administrators into preserving eligibility for Wolfpack cagers in his single-minded pursuit of NCAA glory and the all-mighty buck...
...People will tell you," he says, "that Strauss is loyal to a fault." Yes, many will say that, if he doesn't beat them to it. And they'll relate his many personal kindnesses. Others will say, privately, that he's a fraud, an egomaniac, that his reputation is rooted more in legend than in fact, that he is too often the weather vane and too rarely the wind...