Word: megalomania
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prelapsarian receptivity was precious because it removed us from the somewhat distasteful contemporary situation with Mahler. America, in her inimitable megalomania, most recently exhibited for the world's amusement when man's (Americans) first sentence on the moon included the inevitable word "giant," fancies se as rediscovered Mahler, where in fact she only reestablished her own tanuous appreciation of great music. The best biography was written in 1913, two years after his death; the finest single essay was written in 1939 by the excellent English critic Donald Tovey; and all of the great Mahler conductors are either dead, such...
...Hitler feel compelled to launch an offensive at the time he did? Answer: megalomania, plus his dominant military instinct: the best defense is an offense...
...French people, who are overwhelmingly in support of Israel, were outraged at De Gaulle's cynicism. And they made their displeasure known. Even the usually Gaullist daily, Paris Presse, reported that De Gaulle was being accused of "an acute attack of visceral anti-Americanism, megalomania, soliciting of Arab customers, and sabotage of the Johnson-Kosygin meeting." The editors' conclusion: "Not everything is wrong in these explanations...
...today often sounds as if it belonged to the horse-and-buggy age." The President and Secretary of State "have not taken truly into account the cataclysmic consequences of the collapse of empires," continued Lippmann with a rococo flourish. "We can coexist peaceably only if we forgo the Messianic megalomania which is the Manila madness...
...five big dailies, denies he has any intention of entering the illustrated magazine field, rumors abound that he has formed a secret holding company with Quick, and that he has a controlling share in the company. "It's about time to blow the whistle on Springer's megalomania," says one fretful illustrated publisher with typical illustrated hyperbole. "This is a danger to democracy...