Word: delusional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Canceled Bomber. On the other hand, the bomber in mass formations over land targets had become very vulnerable. One lesson of World War II, says Bush, is that "bombardment of enemy cities in the face of determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of...
If carried to its ridiculous conclusion, one visions a society in which each worker subsidizes the security of every other the individual meanwhile laboring blissfully under the delusion that this is social progress and it's all for free . . .
He was a young (38), unknown French professor of philosophy in 1943 when he published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a...
"Americans suffer from the delusion that the Soviet Union is merely a police state and that there is no such thing as Soviet law and justice," Harold J. Berman, visiting professor of Law, told a Harvard Law School Forum audience last night.
Another patient was under the delusion that his mother had been murdered by a doctor. Now a gossip columnist, he is beginning to realize that his delusion is irrational. Sometimes just reading the paper* has helped. A paragraph in the June issue jibed: "To -- on Hall 7, are you still...