Word: megalomaniacally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shockley is also, besides being a megalomaniac, undeniably a racist. He claims he doesn't hate blacks, that he wants to make society better. Since blacks are less intelligent than whites, he says, they should be sterilized. Leaving aside the huge mass of questions that come up about his theories--Who says I.Q. tests are accurate? Are all the world's problems caused by unintelligent people?--the fact remains that he spends the vast majority of his time talking about the inferiority of blacks and skips over his world-view very quickly. His main goal in life, then, seems...
Actor Rod Steiger, 48, has made a name for himself in strongman roles as Napoleon in Waterloo, Al Capone in Al Capone and the redneck police chief in In the Heat of the Night. For his latest megalomaniac, Steiger has shaved his head and lost 45 Ibs. in order to work with Italian Director Carlo Lizzani on a movie (being shot in English) tentatively called Mussolini... the Last Act. Newsreel flashbacks of the real Duce strutting and posturing at the height of his power will be interspersed with scenes of Steiger playing Mussolini during the last four days...
...comes evidence that the lady meant exactly what she said. Her two most recent books have been about professions as well as people. Significantly, they are professions that are deeply revered and mistrusted for their power over life. Last year's Wonderland was about doctors-an old medical megalomaniac and his foster son. The new novel, her sixth, concerns lawyers. Marvin Howe is a Nietzschean criminal lawyer-vainglorious, corrupt, wondrously successful, obsessed with his control over people. His opposite number is less obviously a monster. Jack Morrissey defends social outcasts and agitators, the teeming poor of Detroit. He lives...