Word: egomaniacs
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...memoirs of a life uprooted by the Russian Revolution. He brags of his exploits as a Don Cossack; he claims pure Russian ; blood and a batch of patents for airplanes and automobiles. But one can never be sure that anything Pyatnitski says is true. He is certainly an egomaniac and very likely mad; he is also a reactionary Tom Swift, an anti-Semite, a sybarite and a paranoiac with a gargantuan appetite for cocaine...
Moorcock takes large risks. An egomaniac with repugnant views is hard to take at great length. There is a predictable pattern to Pyat's adventures as child of the century. But there are rewarding detours: Moorcock's lush descriptions of landscapes and the world's great cities, and a parade of characters that would feel at home in the novels of Dickens, Nabokov and Henry Miller...
...with all great performers, there is no false modesty about Price. A confessed "egomaniac," she has a firm sense of her own worth--and her place in opera. It is, after all, somewhat improbable that the daughter of a sawmill worker and a midwife who both sang in a church choir in segregated Laurel, Miss., could rise to the top of a profession historically dominated not only by whites but by Europeans. Yet as Price wrote on her entrance application to a predominantly black college in Wilberforce, Ohio, "I'm worried about the future because I want so much...
...valuable contributor to undergraduate artistic life at the University, has chosen Peter Sellars to direct the celebration of its 10th anniversary. I must praise student producer Anne Higgins for her initiative and her efforts; I can only express my extreme concern for her having to deal with a professional egomaniac of the worst sort I wish her and all the others the best of success. As for Mr. Perter Sellars, I suggest he stand in the middle of Harvard Square some Saturday afternoon; this might provide him with the chaos he intends for the audience on the 18th. With...
Santini isn't his real name; it's the nom de guerre (literally) of "Bull" Meecham, Marine colonel, pilot extraordinaire, drunk and practical joker, outrageous egomaniac, and father of a large family which he likes to run like a boot camp. Ben, his oldest boy, is a gentle soul who's beginning to chafe under the discipline, to say nothing of his father's determination to mold him in his own macho image...