Word: megalomania
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...work on the picture dictators became too sinister for comedy. He probably intended to do an uproarious farce on dictatorship, or an amusing story of a shy little man who finds himself in a dictator's shoes. He ended by also doing an arraignment of the megalomania of dictatorship and the pathology of race hatred. Result: Chaplin the comedian and Chaplin the lover of democracy together run dictator-wild...
...motion cannot stop until they crash to destruction at the appointed end of their career. History alone will determine whether Herr Hitler could have diverted Naziism into normal channels, whether he was the victim of the movement which he had initiated, or whether it was his own megalomania which drove it beyond the limits which civilisation was prepared to tolerate...
...famed Institute of Experimental Psychology, last week upped the number of such diagnoses to 14: "Sir Nevile Henderson's final report on the actions of Herr Hitler confirms my conclusion . . . that he has every symptom of the paranoiac who is suffering from persecutory mania and whose brainstorms and megalomania will increase until his madness is so apparent that he must be isolated...
Like most of his coaching colleagues, Bierman is timid, diligent, a pessimist. He differs from them in being more pessimistic, working harder and exhibiting a shyness which sometimes produces an effect of megalomania. Last week, when Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Minneapolis, a civic group suggested that Bierman and the President be photographed together. Bierman refused on the grounds that foot ball and politics do not mix. He said he would not object if the President came to see him. Almost speechless in the presence of reporters, luncheon clubs and radio interviewers, he often sits up till 3 a. m. working...
White Horse Inn (words & music by Hans Muller & Ralph Benatsky; Rowland Stebbins, Warner Bros., Rockefellers, producers) is very large, very colorful, very oldfashioned. A pre-War production afflicted with post-War megalomania, White Horse Inn will doubtless spread its abundant, handsome Tirolese sets out into the audience and up beyond the proscenium arch of John D. Rockefeller's Center Theatre in Radio City for as long a stay as The Great Waltz...