Word: delusionally
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Of course, at this moment the Winners are too busy sleeping in public places to be called on to set an example, to demonstrate how lethargic delusion always leads to quality work.
The syndrome also causes a persistent and often unconscious use of certain buzzwords to describe Harvard students. Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, with his constant repetition of “Wopner…Wopner time…Wopner’s on,” a victim of the...
Current polls leave no doubt that the peacenik naysayers now running to the flowers are but a tiny minority of our people. Yet they scream in a voice that is loud and familiar. The neo-hippies who jeer from their idle repose in academia’s ideological daisy-fields...
But most Americans have been living for quite a while in a time of peace and prosperity. That affects the quality of the journalism they get, and tends to promote what might be called the Hefner Delusion.
Ten years ago, for the first time in my life, I felt that my esteemed fellow countrymen were not simply a mob, but had become a people. In standing up to the communist coup, they behaved like a people with great dignity, with a great desire for freedom. Unfortunately, that...