Word: megalomaniacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oedipal Wreck. Ensuing events follow each other to confusion like derailed freight cars. They involve the sergeant's stepfather, a Senator who trades on his war wound and resembles McCarthy as played by Lou Costello, and his mother, a megalomaniac who maneuvers the Senator like a windup toy and makes an Oedipal wreck...
...generously offered himself as "your shield-bearer." It is Galileo's disregard of Kepler, even to the point of not sending him a telescope he asked for, that influences Koestler's frank distaste for Galileo. Far from being a martyr, Koestler believes, Galileo was a pompous megalomaniac, who alienated his Jesuit friends and the benevolence of Pope Urban VIII, until he forced his own trial. But in the main, Author Koestler is equable-tempered and gives Galileo full marks for crumbling the Aristotelian notion of the eternal immutability of the upper heavens...
...this, De Gaulle has once again confounded his critics. Few statesmen of his time have been so consistently misunderstood. Joseph Stalin, in a moment of exceptional obtuseness, dismissed him as "not complicated." Franklin Roosevelt shared the view of him held by British Novelist H. G. Wells?"an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Others, misjudging him in two directions, have called him everything from a dictator-at-heart to an inept political thimblerigger...
Sweet Smell of Success. The rat-rat-tattling of a megalomaniac Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...death, while Soviet collective leadership was still collecting itself. Worried that Berlin riots might have chain reaction in satellites, the Russians in 1953 pulled the hated Rakosi back to Moscow, put up Nagy to head fictitious "People's Front." Nagy (called Hungary's Malenkov) condemned the previous "megalomaniac economic policy" and "exaggerated industrialization," promised workers more food, clothes, an end to "disciplinary measures." But one month after the fall of Malenkov in Russia, Nagy was denounced as a "rightist deviationist" who "encouraged nationalism and chauvinism." Reported ill (coronary thrombosis), Nagy vanished in February 1955. Rakosi was back, tougher...