Word: delusional
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To the Finland Station is illuminated by a contagious awe at mankind's need to believe that the course of history and steady human progress are inevitably linked. History has not yet made clear whether such a belief is a narcotic, a noble inspiration, a necessary myth or a...
World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-94), a mathematician and the so-called father of modern chess, suffered from a delusion in his later years that he could place a telephone call without wire or receiver, as well as move chess pieces at will by emitting electrical currents. He also claimed...
WASHINGTON--President Nixon's economic advisers told Congress Monday "it would be a delusion" to attempt to solve the nation's domestic problem by levying heavier taxes on the wealthy.
On the other hand, several small parts are done nearly perfectly. Kathleen Perkins wanders about comically decrying life as illusion or delusion or perhaps just "mislaid." Deadpan Archie and Smith stops the show as a cabman--hired by Vandergelder to help separate Ambrose and Ermengarde, but sublimely unruffled by their...
No doubt it was excellent therapy, but the result is somewhat inconclusive. It does, however, exemplify a cherished California delusion: that art and life are the same thing.