Word: megalomaniacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the American Military Government in Germany is not being very harsh with the Nazis, who after all rose to power only because the West realized that they might be used as a buffer against the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the businessmen of the West failed to forces that the megalomaniac Hitler would turn not only against Russia, as planned, but also against the Western powers...
Angelic Antics. In this megalomaniac delusion, Goebbels played his usual sycophantic role. One night, as the bombs thundered above them, he read to Hitler from Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great. When he had finished, "tears stood in the Führer's eyes" and two horoscopes were sent for-Hitler's and that of the German Republic. They predicted a change of fortune after a period of disaster. A few days later came news of Roosevelt's death. Reported a witness, Count Schwerin von Krosigk: "We felt the wings of the Angel of History...
When Robert Montgomery played the megalomaniac in the movies some ten years ago, he established a role that summer stock stars have been trying to emulate ever since. The latest attempt, by Walter Starkey, is unfortunate. His portrayal of a murderer is convincing enough, but it is a job unfinished. He forgets the depth of the character in completely failing to expose that "soft center" he claims to have. But Montgomery had some advantages: first, of being a superior actor, and second, of having, on the screen, a medium more effective for emphasizing the mysterious hat-box, in which...
...Liars will steal and rogues will murder, if necessary, to accomplish a nefarious purpose. . . . The honeymoon of this lying, corroding crowd of murderers of character is over. Their swill barrel is empty-they have scraped the bottom of the garbage can. . . . Evans intoxicated himself with megalomaniac dreams of power. ... He has tried bullwhipping, browbeating . . . common ordinary lying . . . but the canker of disappointment gnaws at his soul...
...daughter of his rebel grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...