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Cocoons of Delusion. Most of the innocents are children who are suddenly shocked by experience into the realization that people have unexpected reservoirs of sordidness and evil. But even more exposed, and perhaps more deeply hurt, are the adult innocents, who have sat out their lives in habitual disappointment or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Innocence & Experience | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

"A common delusion--this marriage of spring and romance," said Boring. "Actually, love is a 12 months proposition. Just take a look at birth records. There's no general upward or downward curve in the popularity of love."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Holds No Corner on Love | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

Some sounded more disappointed than angered. Eleanor Roosevelt's first reaction was a distressed "Oh dear, oh dear." Wrote crusading Editor Ralph McGill in the Atlanta Constitution: "He has a real genius for self-delusion [which] will make of him an ignominious spectacle long before November and the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Voice of the People? | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

In his long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Traffic Jam | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Enormous Untruth. But though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there were few who did not believe that the traffic evil would soon be corrected. This enormous delusion has been a part of U.S. folklore since the day of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Traffic Jam | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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