Word: megalomaniac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing as a discernible homosexual type. Some authorities, notably Research Psychologist Evelyn Hooker of U.C.L.A., deny it-against what seems to be the opinion of most psychiatrists. The late Dr. Edmund Bergler found certain traits present in all homosexuals, including inner depression and guilt, irrational jealousy and a megalomaniac conviction that homosexual trends are universal. Though Bergler conceded that homosexuals are not responsible for their inner conflicts, he found that these conflicts "sap so much of their inner energy that the shell is a mixture of superciliousness, fake aggression and whimpering. Like all psychic masochists, they are subservient when confronted...
Earlier Bond movies, actually, tend to merge in one's memory; the new one, having been built to familiar specifications, gives every promise of being just as forgettable. Once again Bond faces a sadistic criminal megalomaniac and passionate cuties of dubious allegiance. Once again, in fact, his enemy is a member of SPECTURE, a secretive, selective group that dabbles in everything from opium smuggling to world domination. What is it up to this time? No less, it immediately turns out, than blackmailing Britain out of 100 million pounds -- the price demanded for returning two atomic bombs hidden at the bottom...
Figures in this novel of invisible corruption include Dr. Talbot, rector of "Gloucester" College, Oxford, who lends his prestige to the concoction of war propaganda, and Lord Pontypool, a vulgarian press lord, whose horrible career is clearly based on that of megalomaniac Lord Northcliffe, creator of Britain's all-too-popular press. But the chief villain is one who usually appears as a fictional hero-the sensitive leftwing intellectual. Tony Caldecott had been the editor of a Quaker-financed liberal weekly and survives the war with a combat-won Military Cross and consciousness of a desperate cowardice known only...
...Protestant ethic. But neither really faces the fact that ingesting psychedelics is different from taking heroin or watching television. S. Clarke Woodroe goes a bit deeper. Discussing the drug experiences of Baudelaire, de Quincey and other writers, he makes some interesting points about the relation between drugs, megalomaniac delusions, and intellectual creativity...
Prophet Without Honor. To many of his critics, France's towering, turbulent leader seems, as H. G. Wells once said, to be "an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Catholic Novelist François Mauriac wrote with greater insight: "He appears as though delegated by historic France to living France, in order that it should remember what a great nation it has been." In fact, De Gaulle has had a lifelong conviction that his mission is to lead France to new greatness. Hauteur and intransigence have always been weapons in that fight. For much of his life, he has been either...