Word: delusionals
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From the time he composed God Bless America, Berlin was determined not to make money on the song. To Kate Smith, for her exclusive use on the radio, he gave his number gratis. When his music publishing house brought out the song, he paid himself the unheard of royalty of...
No foreign correspondent has yet checked up on this rosy picture. But that it is not based wholly on self-delusion is shown by the fact that while European Russia gained 12% in population from 1926 to 1939, the Turkomen Republic grew 25%, Uzbek 37%, Tajik 43%. Only a real...
"To Germany your fear in America of invasion from across the seas strikes us as a strange delusion, and stranger still is the delusion that the invasion is to come from Germany. . . . With a 'moat' more than 3,000 miles wide on one side and more than 5,000 miles...
Richard Aldington: "It is typical high-brow delusion to suppose that authors influence anyone but the intellectuals and that intellectuals count for anything in the formation of national policy and the state of the mass mind. Most people in America have never heard of the writers MacLeish mentions and could...
"Rid at last,"said the resolution, "of the delusion of security through neutrality, we recognize that the German National Socialist system is our enemy ... we face the fact that we are now in a state of opposition to the German National Socialist system, which . . . seeks to destroy our system of...