Word: megalomania
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Tito's Appearance: "He has a flabby, effeminate face, a mask which conceals the wicked, cunning and egotistical soul of an artful sneak . . . A bloodthirsty dwarf and illiterate petit-bourgeois who dons golden uniforms and is suffering from megalomania" (Literary Gazette, Moscow...
Young (21) Painter Cuevas strayed only as far as the insane asylum, the charity hospital and the slums. With an economy of fuzzy line, scratched on paper with almost hairless brushes, he powerfully portrayed the hunched reticence of schizophrenia, the hauteur of megalomania, the stares of poverty and disease. His show of 43 ink drawings and watercolors at Washington's Pan American Union caused one old lady to ask: "How can you be so young and so morbid?" To this often repeated question, Cuevas replies flatly: "My interest in the dying and the insane is my vision of modern...
Philosopher Mortimer Adler consistently admitted that the idea was "a sort of megalomania with me": he had long wanted to set up a staff of scholars whose one job would be to discuss and analyze the main issues in the thinking of Western Man. Last week, as he resigned his post as professor of philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, Adler, 49, announced that he was going to San Francisco to head a new Institute for Philosophical Research-the first of its kind in the world...
Says he: "There would be a touch of megalomania in the project . . . but without megalomania of this sort, nothing can be done, for we have reached that stage of intellectual decay where little things will not avail...
...Touch of Megalomania? With the Syntopicon out of the way, Adler might have relaxed, but, as his wife puts it, "he has a clock built inside him." He never stops ticking. His restless eyes have an intensely pained look, particularly when he has to sit still and listen to someone else talk. In appearance, friends have compared him to a better-fed Savonarola. He likes Brooks Brothers suits, good leather, fast cars, fine food (the waitresses at his favorite restaurants are under strict instruction not to tempt him with rolls and desserts), but whatever he enjoys, he usually enjoys...