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Those who suggest that the solution to black problems lies in the minds and wills of blacks are always accused of blaming the victims. But that is a futile line. Forget blame. Presumably, black America long since abandoned the delusion (if it ever harbored it) that white America was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Manhood and The Power of GLORY | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

It is a solipsistic delusion to think the West could bring about the seismic % events now seizing the U.S.S.R. and its "fraternal" neighbors. If the Soviet Union had ever been as strong as the threatmongers believed, it would not be undergoing its current upheavals. Those events are actually a repudiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

For turning Atlantic City into an American monument to self-delusion, the casinos blame the town, the town blames the casinos, and everyone blames the state. All of them are right.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

David Henry Hwang, whose Tony award-winning M. Butterfly is still on Broadway, wrote 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and remains true to Glass's experimental use of time and changing rhythm. At one point M, sinking hopelessly into madness, cries out "Time is a lottery!"--a lottery that pays...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Flying in the Face of Reason | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

This apathy, this self-delusion or self-denial formed the grounds for masters and the College dean to propose in November the greatest change in residential housing assignment since the early 1970s. Alarmed by stereotypes of the houses and concerned that the houses no longer represented the educational microcosm of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Working for Inclusion | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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