Word: delusional
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In a kaleidoscopic series of case histories, a gallery of probationers, ranging from the wicked to the underprivileged and mentally defective, are pictured in predicaments ranging from comedy to tragedy. A few of the excessive characters: a young hoodlum (Harry Fowler) and a delinquent teen-ager (Joan Collins) who fall...
"Christ saw on the cross that man, as he is, is always in revolt against God . . . But, while man's nature rages, God's Plan and God's Truth stand secure-as the stars in heaven stand above the earth. The notion that the age of Jesus...
Then the President turned to reassess the Korean war. He ignored the happy delusion that the Korean war, of itself, is somehow a "lesson" which has taught Communists the folly of aggression. Said he: "It is clearly a part of the same calculated assault that the aggressor is simultaneously pressing...
"When it comes to security, I recollect that in the early Twenties we were mad for it. Furthermore, we were certain we would get it-a delusion to which the young today are too perceptive to attach themselves . . . Young people want answers to their questions about the meaning and the...
D. H. Lawrence said of it: "If it is the book of a demon, as ... contemporaries said, it is the book of a man demon, not of a mere poseur. And if some of it is caviar, at least it came out of the belly of a live fish." This...