Word: delusionally
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If Saltonstall truly believes that the most recent stadium proposal, the one that advocated Neponset as a possible location for a $16 million structure, had any chance of passing two days ago, then he equals Patriots' president Bill Sullivan in self-delusion.
THE scene is not that difficult to imagine. For all of his political life, Lindsay has been afflicted by the delusion that he is a Republican. But the label grows more threadbare by the month. In fact, Lindsay has been a man without a party ever since last spring'...
But self-delusion, at least as far as hockey goes, seems to be a habit at New Haven. Even after an 8-1 walloping at Cornell in December, a release came out of the Yale sports information office saying that "the one-sided defeat now doesn't look so bad...
Fit for Fortune Cookies. Mencken's denudation of America's Sunday-go-to-meeting image was carried out with wit and a once admired prose style. Harold Ross of The New Yorker said that he was "the most enlightened man writing today." That praise now seems a shade...
Now a view of this sort runs quite counter to that of our friendly professors. They feel that if only the American government were more educated, if only it knew more about "Asian histories and cultures," if only it listened to them, we would have no more blunders and would...