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The reason Judy Benjamin finds herself in this unlikely situation is that she has joined the Army under the delusion, fostered by a smooth-talking recruiter, that basic training will be something like "six weeks at La Costa." This, she believes, will help her recover from the grief of husband...
For Uncle Vanya cries out for intimacy. There are, as always, intense forces at work beneath Chekhov's relatively placid surface, but here they are not as sweeping as in his other plays: no armies come and go, no property is sold, no affairs are consummated, no duels fought, no...
With Carter in power another four years, the Democrats might have been able to slide along in the self-delusion that their party remained, after all, the voice of the American majority, still something like the fractiously diverse pluralistic parade that Roosevelt organized. Now Democrats will have to face the...
Scientists traditionally conclude with suggestions for further research, and doomsayers with a list of ways to avoid the bad time ("The aerosol can must be banned, the United Nations must produce eight billion condoms"). Perhaps there is some way out--solar energy, if it is developed quickly despite the neglect...
The church had other roles in public policy as well; it was central in a fight that eventually led to a woman's execution for witchcraft in 1650, a woman one historian called "one of the earliest victims to that dreadful popular delusion." As late as 1696, the selectmen of...