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Unity Road is a sensible vision conceived by Mehdi ben Barka. bright-eyed young (37) president of Morocco's Consultative Assembly. Brought to the U.S. by the State Department last March to see whatever he wanted, Ben Barka did not succumb to the common delusion that the U.S. is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Morocco: Hope | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

It is a fantastic lineage to claim for just another wacky art colony. Nevertheless, a truth is suggested here-a bitter bite from the orange on the tree of knowledge. The vision of an earthly paradise is an ancient delusion. The trouble is not the earth but man. Miller'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Sur-Realism | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

To the antipapist English press of the period, Pierce's next move was meat for scandal. In 1849, only a short time after he had tried unsuccessfully to get a cardinal's hat, he made another spectacular switch ("my allegiance to Rome was a culpable delusion"), sued Cornelia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scandal Revisited | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

4. The United Nations has decided to take action in both the Middle East and Hungary, and by so doing, it has set for itself the test which will determine whether it becomes the world's hope for peace and law, or the world's well-intentioned delusion.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crisis and Stevenson | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

A Tragic Delusion. "It will be a tragic delusion to imagine that the problem can be 'solved.' The enlistment of 200,000 or more new teachers a year between now and 1959 would absorb about half the total recipients of bachelor degrees in that period. In view of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Danger of Disaster | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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