Word: delusional
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Still laboring under its old delusion that the only good library is a closed one, University Hall by its present policy continues to give evidence of looking back with acute nostalgia to the days when curfew rang early and often for Widener. Though the shortcomings of the Father of Libraries...
In Manhattan, Joseph Ferdinand Gould (Harvard, 1911) celebrated the writing of the 7,300,000th word in his uncompleted book. Oral History of Our Times. Said Writer Gould: "I have used no printed material. I have been at work on it for 15 years and everything in it was transmitted...
Not an integral part of the story, Lionel Barrymore plays a sniveling old Confederate veteran, full of pride, a musty love affair and corn whiskey. Best shot: Barrymore, under the delusion that he is again commanding troops in the field, shouldering his cane, marching off down the great hall to...
Flimsily built, most of Tokyo and every other Japanese city is so much pasteboard and matchwood, ready to be kindled by incendiary bombs. Fire is the worst part of every Japanese earthquake. Not being able to count on an earthquake, "Klim" Voroshilov has built up one of the great air...
Julian Green's "Invisible prose" as a categorical imperative is a delusion: the most ornate style conceivable might be as perfect and "invisible" a projection of the narrative fact as a stripped style. But considering the atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably...