Word: delusional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Did the world really act as fast as possible to meet the threat? The answer, unfortunately, is no. The eventual rescue operation was the last chapter in a long saga of confusion, wishful thinking, indecision and delay. For nearly a decade before the 1987 ozone treaty, nations were warned of...
But Feldstein has vocal critics, too, according to Warsh. "Lester Thurow, who himself was a candidate for the presidency of the Bureau in 1977, noting Feldstein's claim that a maharajah, receiving reports from five blind men feeling an elephant, could piece together an accurate picture, tartly compared Feldstein to...
Getting to this point logically is harder than it sounds. The love-as- cultural-delusion argument has long seemed unassailable. What actually accounts for the emotion, according to this scenario, is that people long ago made the mistake of taking fanciful literary tropes seriously. Ovid's Ars Amatoria is often...
Choi raises the obvious criticism that ethnic and gender studies tend to "institutionalize...their own marginalization," but no one who has perused the Courses of Instruction searching for a course in ethnic studies could remain under the delusion that he or she is studying something mainstream. Choi's "over 130...
Aron seizes this opportunity to offer us a brief commentary on the nature of illusion and self-delusion. As Ms. Tokatok says to Mindo the Hypnotist (Scott Cole): "It would be wonderful to live in...a world of dreams."