Word: delusional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Jason Robards Jr. impressive as a collapsing standard bearer for his era and vocation, and with George Grizzard excellent as the younger writer, the main narrative has many moments, such as Halliday's proud roll call of Jazz Age names, that are vibrantly nostalgic, as it has others...
Ireland, in the view of Mayo-born Novelist George Moore, was "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to disassociate himself." To the waspish eye of Novelist Honor Tracy, herself part Irish, Ireland is less a disease than a delusion. Its inhabitants live as...
In 1950, tasting catastrophe, he warned of an "iron half-century" in which everything-"from television to partisanship, from jukeboxes to self-delusion"-must surrender to the "stern requirements of independence and survival." "All is lost." he cried at a 1954 New Year's party to a friend offering...
Regarding an article by your Mr. John Leonard concerning one Morris, which appeared in your most recent issue: Mr. Leonard seems to be laboring under the same delusion as Mr. Frank Norris when he said, "We want life, not literature" (and probably succeeded in giving us neither). In order to...
The Dangerous Delusion. The Russians are often incorrigible copycats: if they want something, but do not want to go to the effort of designing one of their own, they merely copy it (the Russian cash register, based on early National Cash Registers, even has National's own seal design...