Word: egomaniae
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...their Klaxons continually has caused much speculation. One obvious reason: the lack of traffic lights and direction at busy intersections. But horns are honked at lighted corners too, and many times horns are honked continually out of exuberance. Said one philosophical Mexican: "It is a form of national egomania. For so long we were without such wonderful material possessions. Now if a man has an automobile or at least can sit behind the wheel of one, he wants to advertise it to the world, just as some of us who have electric refrigerators place them in the best part...
...Palestrina, who composed the greatest of all Catholic liturgical music, expressed himself almost entirely in consonances. But 18th-Century Johann Sebastian Bach, a product of the more individualistic Protestant Reformation, used dissonances liberally, especially in his impassioned, emotional moments. And 19th-Century Richard Wagner, whose individualism bordered on egomania, laid dissonances on with a trowel...
...Social Credit he became a fiery if incoherent apostle. "Usury" he attacked in sumptuous and contemptuous cantos. He fell for the Fasces that seemed to mean Order. In his crotchety isolation he desired an audience; his own country ignored him; Fascismo flattered him. His half-bantering egomania became huge. When World War II began, chafing at new difficulties of communication, he wrote: "Am inconvenienced by shutdown of London...
There was a change of atmosphere in Asia. The bland Pacific air, which for ten years had crackled with Japanese threats, Japanese denunciations, Japanese egomania, grew tensely quiet. In the stillness came a gentle voice from Tokyo. It said plaintively: "Can't we be friends...
...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...