Word: megalomania
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...Corbusier made another plan for Paris, but since it presupposed demolishing a good part of the existing city the Parisians did not take to it at all. "Megalomania!" screamed the weekly Arts-Vandalism! Vanity! Monotony!" "In Paris," sighs Corbu, "prophets are kicked in the rear...
...building a podium before a wall-sized photograph of the Boston Symphony, plans to invite passers-by in to conduct behind closed doors. Actually, home conducting may be a healthy thing, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Edmund Bergler: it provides the amateur with sublimating relief from the gnawing "infantile megalomania" that afflicts every man who ever wanted to lift a baton...
Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky, a specialist in soul-probing among the urban proletariat, gave a group of Washington, D.C. actors a spasm of comment on his own class: "I've never known a good writer who observed anyone but himself. Megalomania is one of the prime requisites of being a good writer. Writers write out of different convictions. For example, Saroyan believes life is beautiful. That's a hard message to get over in a recession...
Venezuela's racy weekly Elite cornered Argentina's booted ex-Dictator Juan Peroón, 61, in one of his Caracas haunts, learned that megalomania still makes PeroÓn's world go round. Boasted Exile Peroón: "I have multimillionaire friends all over the world. For the past two years, a castle and a speed boat have been waiting for me in Lake Como, Italy. I could spend the last years of my life eating thousand-dollar bills, but I chose the harder road." Does that road lead back to Argentina and a joyous welcome...
...Nondescript. If Pierre Poujade belongs in the category of demagogues or dictators, he is a strange specimen. He exudes none of the magniloquence of a Mussolini, the cold power of a Stalin, the megalomania of a Hitler. Instead, there is an engaging air of café table simplicity about him. Even his features are nondescript and the despair of caricaturists. "Look me in the eyes, and you will see yourself," he cries to his listeners...