gigantomania

This came to be known as "gigantomania" by the Western observers.

Look again and you could see it was an expression of morbid gigantomania.

Soviet gigantomania continued, albeit with less popularity, after Stalin's death.

But his attack on "gigantomania" extends to the U.S. as well.

Kolkhozy of tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of hectares were envisioned in schemes which were later to become known as gigantomania.

There is a hint of gigantomania in this score, an almost Kaiser Wilhelm-like, modern German tendency towards overstatement."

In addition to massive construction projects, Stalin's gigantomania can be seen in the ideologue of Stakhanovism, which emphasized constantly over-fulfilling production target quotas.

On one hand, there are several of the huge square flower pieces that pack a mathematical punch, quite apart from tackling the flowers on the scale of gigantomania.

Mr. Jungblut has been using his camera to document what he calls gigantomania: "A hotel in Las Vegas with 300 stories, the desert, the Grand Canyon."

When he made the proposal for the statues in St. Petersburg, the local paper reported criticisms of "gigantomania" and quoted an art historian who said the idea of a park full of his "oversized monsters" sent shivers down her spine.

While that sea dried up, its delta and the ecosystem it supported (called Szigetkoz in Hungarian) survived until 1992, when a Czechoslovak project, rooted in Stalinist gigantomania, moved the river into an artificial sealed canal in Slovakia.

Among the troubles Dr. Sagdeyev lists are political interference, "gigantomania," bureaucracy, lack of contact between researchers and students, "mafia" groups that keep Jews out of universities and dominate the direction of learning, stifling centralization, which favors showy projects and starves creative individuals of the equipment they need.

The authorities of the People's Republic of Poland and their successors were accused of gigantomania, but now we have gigantic losses and misfortune.