Word: monomaniac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Horse's Mouth. The wine of genius mixed with just plain sewage in an uneven but arresting version of Joyce Gary's memorable novel about a lovable monomaniac painter, with Alec Guinness as star and adapter...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. About a middle-aged monomaniac's obsession with an adolescent "nymphet." Brilliantly writ ten, by turns hilarious and horrifying, it is a strange but major work of fiction...
Lolita is a major work of fiction; it is also a shocking book. Prefaced by a fictitious academic fathead who presents it as a message to "parents, social workers, [and] educators," the book describes the transcontinental debauch of a twelve-year-old girl by a middle-aged monomaniac. As it turns out, the narrator is writing his apologia from a prison cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about...
...sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character, Wheeler said recently, is that he "cares very much...
WILLIAM WYLER Hollywood 54 in '55 SIR: MY SINCERE THANKS TO BORIS CHALIAPIN AND TIME [DEC. 27] FOR A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT . . . POSTSCRIPT AS TO MY BEING A "CHEERFUL MONOMANIAC"-MAYBE so. BUT THERE'S ONE THING OF WHICH I AM SURE; I WAS ONLY...