Word: monomania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sessions and show-biz parties. There are occasional testimonials to Belushi's sweetness (he and his wife make love on a Martha's Vineyard cliff; he buys his father a ranch in California and settles some family debts), but the book is swamped by examples of his "monomania." There is frequent mention of the great actor he might have been, but the evidence of his seven films indicates mostly that he was playing image, not mining character...
...preoccupied with his political message: "Personal freedom was the lifeblood of Poland, but the supreme irony was that its freedom-loving citizens were not able to develop those same mental forms which could preserve that freedom." He sets up rigid dichotomies between Polish culture and the surrounding barbarism. The monomania goes to the point where he assets that Germany and Russia invaded Poland solely to allay the fear that their common people would envy the conditions of the Poles and be incited to rebel. He makes no mention of Poland's immense strategic value or her rich fertility...