Word: egomaniae
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...dark star of the Chronicle is one Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski, a character who might have tumbled from the pages of an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel. Installed as a leader called the Eldest of the Jews, he runs the ghetto with a lethal mix of egomania and compassion. No one can marry without his permission; no one is born or dies without his notice. Rumkowski orders postage stamps bearing his likeness; sycophants and fools dance in constant attendance. He seems fond of his charges, but he fully cooperates with the Nazis, supervises "deportations" that go directly to the ovens of Chelmno...
...Since his story leaves off before Cosima's long widowhood (she died in 1930, at 93), he does not have to confront her in the decades when she reigned implacably over Bayreuth. He cites ample evidence of Wagner's more monstrous traits, which Cosima shared or abetted: egomania, antiSemitism, a devouring exploitativeness. Yet Skelton seems to take his tone from a remark of Cosima's, when the abandoned Bülow told her he forgave her. "What is needed," said Cosima, "is not forgiveness, but understanding." -By Christopher Porterfield
...charge Beatty with vanity and egomania, and a little misleading. He is actually Hollywood's softest, most self-effacing romantic romantic actor. Even playing macho-tough, as in Bonnie and Clyde or McCabe and Mrs. Miller, he's careful to show the boyish vulnerability underneath. Small-scale and unaggressive, he can't sustain a picture alone, so he surrounds himself with high-voltage actors and situations, and he counts on the audience to look to him for relief. In John Reed, Beatty found a figure ideally suited to his own quiet narcissism--a modern saint, political innocent and martyr...
Harvard draws obsessive people by the hundreds. The average Harvard undergraduate seems distinguished by the fact that he is not average in at least one area; the area may be physics, grade-grubbing, writing, egomania or self-loathing. Most everyone here, for better or worse, developed a trait or interest in childhood that made him a little different...
...they never flinch. "To assume on your shoulders the responsibility for the people is an act of arrogance in itself," declares Kissinger. "Most action must be taken when a leader cannot see his way clearly to the end. What is needed is a curious combination of egomania and humility. If he is too much impressed with the size of the challenge, he does nothing. If he is too little impressed, he gets into trouble...