Word: megalomania
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...their national culture into a celebration of the monarchy. "This was the Shah's ego coming in," said a Western diplomat. "He is idealistic and patriotic, and he works 18 hours a day running this country all by himself. But he also has a heavy dose of megalomania...
...surgically deformed Heinrich Kroeger, intimate of the German high command, the center of an international backer's dozen of tycoons who are underwriting Hitler. U.S. intelligence, with help from his abandoned wife and widowed mother, pursues Scarlatti through the capitals of the world, encountering murder, madness and megalomania among the high and the mighty. The plot is pure kitsch, but does occasionally clutch, and the reader rests assured that the damned indeed are doomed...
...stories about David Lean's painstaking efforts to make his postcard flawless are true: he did keep his crew waiting three days on a beach until an angry-enough looking wave rolled in. They reveal his incompetence, however, more than his megalomania. Lean redid a month's shooting at $28,000 a day because Robert Mitchum's costume was "too little Lord Fauntleroy"-a point Mitchum had made before shooting began. And consider the product of all Lean's care. Its romanticism is so retarded as to give the heroine a white mare and her lover a black stallion...
Messianic Megalomania. Some of the stories may well be exaggerations or fabrications. As one radical who surrendered himself to police earlier this month put it, the really hard-core terrorists are gripped by a "messianic megalomania." Conceivably, they would not hesitate to lie in order to discredit the Brazilian government. A statement from Brazil's presidential palace insisted: "There is no torture in our prisons. Also, there are no political prisoners." Yet President Emílio Garrastazú Médici has specifically advised his underlings that torture is not to be tolerated...
Open Season. As Kirk's wild week came to a close, even many Floridians who agreed with his stand on busing wondered about the rationality of his tactics. Observing that "megalomania has no place in a statehouse," the Miami Herald called for the Governor to be "removed from office as unfit to serve...