Word: monomaniacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, we must recognize in Lasch that terrifying phenomenon, the after-dinner monomaniac--a specimen who could, by stricter regulation of dangerous technology, be kept from the typewriter entirely. He is the sort of talker, so family in the horror-pitted fields of family life, on whom one vomited at three years, old, listened to at seven, and ignored at ten. Does Lasch find it easy to lead a psychologically sound and theoretically consistent life? Or has he found, on the contrary, that humility, intellectual generosity, and a too-fitful wisdom keep breaking...
Whether chosen by his people or by a political elite, each member of the club is remarkable in some way. Each is monomaniac to a point. But each knows his fragility, even as Sadat knew. As Harry Truman put it, "Many people are indispensable. No one is irreplaceable." So it will be this time as the grand lodge of the power wielders mourns, and then moves...