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(4 of 10) only of delusion. Even benevolent magic was swept away in the purges: the "good walkers" of Friuli in the 16th century believed that their spirits rose from their bodies as they slept and went out into the fields to do battle with evil forces. Despite their good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Occult: A Substitute Faith | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

I had thought that there was no longer any need to set forth the nature and causes of American failure in Vietnam or the case for complete withdrawal, but the renewed bombing attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong demonstrate that there are still those who have the delusion that it will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DELUSION OF NON-COMMUNIST VIETNAM | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

But some of the gentlemen that signed up to play football for the Freaks were masters of self-delusion. One of them wept openly when that big hand descended upon his shoulder and he was told that no, there just wasn't a place for him on the Big Team...

Author: By B. JOHN I. powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 4/27/1972 | See Source »

The Man Who Loved Children, one of the most virulent portraits of male delusion and domestic agony ever created. Though it has become a minor classic, it was all but unnoticed when it came out in 1940. In the 1950s Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Irate Accent | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Literary Critic Mary Ellmann's book is concerned with mind and language. She shows with wit and logic that sexual analogies and feminine literary stereotypes-e.g., formlessness, passivity, piety, irrationality-are the misleading products of masculine delusion and illogic. A pleasure, whatever the reader's persuasion about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lib and Let Lib | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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