Word: delusional
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In order to point out that I intended no such inference to be drawn, I specifically said that I believed that the disregard of the evidence in the White case was "because of the unwillingness of the non-Communists in responsible positions to face the facts and a persistent delusion...
-The classic insanity defense under the no-year-old M'Naghten Rules, named for a Scot who in 1843 tried to kill British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, and killed Sir Robert's secretary by mistake. The defense pleaded that M'Naghten was under the delusion that...
In St. Germain-des-Pres or Bloomsbury much of this might be accepted as existentialism. In the stubborn Quaker tradition that distrusts abstractions and relies on ad hoc "leadings," Maurer fights shy of any such cerebral pigeonholes. The very word idea, he holds, has the makings of snare and delusion...
This mass delusion does not, as some self-pitying eggheads would like to think, stem from a chronic public distaste for intellectuality. It is the outlet for frustrations born of war and preparation for war. It is the kind of scapegoat-flogging that almost inevitably results from seemingly endless international...
¶RCA's Board Chairman David Sarnoff promised an RCA video tape recorder within two years, and a presentation, by the industry, of the case for color TV before the Federal Communications Commission within three months. He also departed from his prepared address to kick subscription TV in its...