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In their "political myth, "Freed and Stone create a flat and unoriginal character. This peevish politician is just another "hard luck kid" who developed a complex because he played second fiddle all his life--to his big brother, to Eisenhower, to Kennedy. At the end of the play, he reaches...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Lacking Any Honor | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

Here we are in America, 1984, and it seems that only by a powerful act of deliberate self-delusion could one imagine that Blacks in America and elsewhere, are not, as a group, getting beat in the head by various American institutions, chief among them the United States government. This...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: The Darker Side | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

Asked Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "Have we always attempted to defend against future threats based on precedents from the past? Are we still operating under the delusion that our enemies will not be imaginative and inventive?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut:The Post-Mortem Goes On | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

That is the difference, and it should be obvious. We should not be surprised by Soviet barbarity, for they play by different rules, but we should take this into account in our dealings with them. And we most certainly should not fall for Soviet propaganda designed not so much to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KAL 007 | 9/30/1983 | See Source »

I was interested to read about sexologists' squabbles over the "cure rate" for the "disorder" of low sexual desire [June 13]. So low sexual desire is a disorder? How about low desire to play tennis? Who is going to cure sexologists of the delusion that it's their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1983 | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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