Word: egomaniae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life, Passions Spin the Plot, We Are Betrayed, No Villain Need Be) reminded critics of Rousseau, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence (but not, oddly enough, of Thomas Wolfe). This four-decker autobiographical chronicle told the tormented story of Vardis Fisher's fight to free himself from acute egomania and puritan repressions...
...other concerns a poor girl who marries the German who killed her lover in the World War. During Swift's madness the two lovers appear as his servants. Few readers will be able to follow Author Sitwell's symbolical connection between the modern world and the egomania that drove Swift to destroy the lives of Stella and Vanessa because he would neither live with them nor leave them alone...
...modern world Swift's egomania is translated into "two nations, the rich and the poor, walking to their death in opposed hordes, [bound together by] a cannibalistic greed, hatred, and fear...
...they cause each other before achieving final reconciliation. When the wife leaves the orchestra leader, she runs into such troubles as alcoholism, fainting spells and fits of giggles to conceal her breaking heart. When she refuses to take him back, he experiences the same symptoms, with overtones of rudeness, egomania and, finally, prostration. The only thing that makes these developments, usually reserved for pictures aimed at double bills, remarkable in Break of Hearts, is that herein they are the vehicle for two such Hollywood celebrities as Charles Boyer and Katharine Hepburn...
Organized in 1927 to promote mutual understanding between the various branches of the industry, the high-sounding Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences now exists mainly for an annual banquet at which its 700 members can gorge, guzzle and gratify their egomania by awarding prizes for meritorious cinema performances. Last month it looked as if this year's banquet might degenerate into an open brawl. Cliques in the Academy objected to the six nominations for best performances because Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, George Arliss and others were omitted. The Awards Committee quickly changed its rules to permit members...