Word: delusional
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Instead of helping these women remove the causes of their "boredom and loneliness at home," as Cardozo believes could (and can still) be done, feminists told them to leave home and become absentee mothers, just like their absentee husbands. Says she: "Their only quarrel with the success ethic was that...
O'Donnell forces strong themes in and out of his work: faith and delusion, guilt and innocence, words and meaning. His characters miss being drawn to proper proportions--they are unevenly constructed, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow to the point of being like the cartoons Tyler complains he comes out...
A SUSTAINED EFFORT to associate the psychology of Celine's characters with Pascal's metaphysics gets McCarthy into worse trouble. He replaces the theatrical vocabulary which the novelist uses to describe his characters' penchant for self-delusion, their yearning for a grander reality, with the concept of divertissement. But Pascal...
Inevitably, the books cited are mainly concerned with the fighting and the men who fought. Readers deeply imbued with the modern notion that wars are per se bad and boring, that wars never settle anything anyway, are advised to check these sentiments at the library door. Then, as now, to...
Dr. Bernard D. Davis told a reporter last week that he objected to widespread delusion that Medical School programs, after drastically stepping up admission of minority students eight years ago, are going well.